Rethinking China Conquered or Not:A Cliometrics Approach
The change of dynasties in ancient China is an important field of Chinese cliometrics research.Chenqiang' paper analyzing the change of dynasties in ancient China has the weaknesses of(i) arbitrarily denying the theories of " individual quality" and "climate change";(ii) replacing the marginal incidence of floods and droughts by the average incidence of floods and droughts(which cannot exactly reflect the climate change);(iii) choosing the explanatory variables; (iv) the definition of the Central Plains Dynasty which is inconsistent with the traditional historiography.