Who Was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4893446 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Elvin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Pages | 213-237 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/649286 |
| OpenAlex | W1976679029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
Archaeology · China · Economic history · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law
Sovereignty, Virtue, and Disaster Management
Water, Dike, and Temple
Weather Prognostication in Late Imperial China as Presented in Local Gazetteers (1644–1722)
Introduction
Restless skies at the turn of the first Millennium AD. Climate fluctuations, astronomic phenomena and socio-political turbulences in 10th and 11th century Byzantium and Japan in comparative perspective
‘The Law of Storms’
The Explanations of Snow in the Taixi shuifa 泰西水法 (Hydromethods of the Great West, 1612) and Their Reception beyond the Ming–Qing Transition
Topographies of climate as a keyword
The River, the Plain, and the State
The Infrastructure of Science Making in Early Modern China
The “cultural turn” of climate history
Histories of habitability from the oikoumene to the Anthropocene
Imperialism, colonialism, and climate change science
Mainstreaming Morality
Social production of disasters and disaster social constructs
From “Nourish the People” to “Sacrifice for the Nation”
State aesthetics and the Other-Nature in disaster memorials
Machine Sky
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |