Feng Xian

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined high-resolution eutrophic peat/mud sequences covering the past 18,000 cal yr at Dahu, Jiangxi, on the southern boundary of the mid subtropical zone in China, and found that the Holocene Optimum occurred between ca. 10,000 and 6000 cal yr ago in southern China, consistent with the global pattern.

TL;DR: A 550,000-year-long record of East Asian summer monsoon rainfall from Chinese loess is derived, arguing that both EASM intensity and Chinese cave δ18O are not governed by high-northern-latitude insolation, as suggested by others, but rather by low-latitudes interhemispheric insolation gradients, which may also strongly influence global ice volume via monsoon dynamics.

TL;DR: Zhou et al. as discussed by the authors used radiocarbon dates from the Hongyuan peatland in the Zoige Basin to reveal the long-term dynamics of an alpine wetland ecosystem on the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau over the last 13,500 years.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used multivariable linear regression to remove the geomagnetic field modulation and dust flux dilution effects from the cosmogenic 10Be record for reconstructing precipitation.

TL;DR: In Chinese loess, the Brunhes-Matuyama (B-M) geomagnetic reversal occurs ∼25 k.y. prior to the age found in marine sediments.