Climatic change and dynastic cycles in Chinese history: A review essay

Climatic Change

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 565-573

  Fan, Ka wai ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT CHINA; CHINESE HISTORY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; GLOBAL COOLING; HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT; MING DYNASTY; SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS;

HISTORY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HISTORICAL RECORD; LITERATURE REVIEW;

EID: 77955050841     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9702-3     Document Type: Article

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