A new article by Fiona Williamson in WIREs Climate Change reviews the literature on climate history in East Asia, highlighting new work that focuses on how climate has impacted culture in the region. Her review of the literature suggest that historical climatology has laid the ground for more fine-toothed analyses of climate history. In so doing, Williamson argues that climate can be used to not only understand the large-scale migrations and regime collapses that it has been used to understand in East Asia, but also how climate has driven changes in regional customs and philosophical systems on a smaller scale as well. Find out more here.
Climate History Network