An Opportunity for Rebellion or a Warning for Governance? The Impact of Legitimacy Crises, Floods, and Conflicts in the Qing Dynasty

• In Event: Historical Political Economy of China: Imperial Dynasties

Brief Overview

This paper uses prefecture-level panel data from 1644 to 1840 in Qing Dynasty China to investigate the impact of legitimacy crises brought by solar eclipse on social conflicts within the cultural context of Confucian “heaven-human induction”.

Authors

• Xinyang Gao, Peking University

• Wenhui Yang, Peking University

• Xingyu Zhou, Peking University