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Comment on “On linking climate to Chinese dynastic change: Spatial and temporal variations of monsoonal rain”

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Abstract

An article by Zhang et al. questions the interpretation of our oxygen isotope record from Wanxiang Cave and the sediment titanium record from Lake Huguang Maar, and the possible linkage between climate change and Chinese culture. In response, we explain that their approach lacks logical rigor and their major argument is broadly consistent with, rather than contradictory to our original conclusions. We also note that climate-culture relationships similar to those that we observe in China have been observed for other cultures around the world.

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  1. Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, China

    Hai Cheng

  2. Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Hai Cheng & R. Lawrence Edwards

  3. Geological Institute, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, CH-8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Gerald H. Haug

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Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L. & Haug, G.H. Comment on “On linking climate to Chinese dynastic change: Spatial and temporal variations of monsoonal rain”. Chin. Sci. Bull. 55, 3734–3737 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-010-4122-3

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