Sheng-Wei Wang is an independent scholar and writer who is passionate about uncovering our shared history of globalisation. She was born in Taiwan, lived in the US and Germany, but currently resides in Hong Kong. She is Eastern and Western educated with a BS in Chemistry from Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemical Physics from the University of Southern California (1976).
She founded worlddiscovery.net in 2022 in order to share her work, publish her papers and promote an inclusive and open dialogue. When she is not writing, she enjoys attending speaking engagements with academics and the general community about her views and opinions. There she engages in the wider discussion on what it means to be a member of a globalised world and how it is shaped by our shared history as human beings and it is this excitement she hope to recreate here on worlddiscovery.net.
To contact Dr Wang on contributions, feedback and speaking engagements, please email at chinauslink2(at)yahoo.com.
Publications
Journal Articles
- 王胜炜,(2019) “郑和下西洋所至地点和’一带一路’倡议”, 中国厦门 “大航海时代与 21 世纪海上丝绸之路” 海峡两岸学术研讨会论文集, 2019年出版, 第 110-125 页. (Sheng-Wei Wang. “The location Zheng He’s western voyages reached and the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative.” Collective papers from the Cross-Strait Academic Conference in Xiamen, China, on “The Great Sailing Era and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, 2019, pp. 110-125).
Books (English)
Wang, Sheng-Wei. 2023. Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map. (World Scientific). https://doi.org/10.1142/13273
Wang, Sheng-Wei. 2019. The Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He (Finalist for 2018 Proverse Literary Prize)
Bonner, Laurie; Nickless, Mark; Wang, Sheng-Wei. 2015.《郑和发现美洲之新解》(Chasing Dragons: The True History of the Piasa (Chinese Edition)
Speaking Engagements
24. (5 June 2024) – Royal Geographical Society (Hong Kong); Title: “Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map” https://rgshk.org.hk/rgs-events/all-events-past/item/2513-chinese-global-exploration-in-the-pre-columbian-era-evidence-from-an-ancient-world-map.html
23. (16 January 2024) – New book ceremony at Bookazine (Hong Kong’s most successful chain of bookshops); title: “Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map”
22. (29 April 2023) – Talk The Walk Interview with Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang (HKIBC: Hong Kong International Business Channel; Channel 76) on “Impact of Zheng He’s Voyages and Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map: China-US Relations”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMLTFYmqZT4.
21. (15 January 2023) – 2023 International Zheng He Forum (online); title: “A Chinese-based map depicts Africa in 1433”
20.(23 July 2022) – 2022 International Zheng He Forum (online); title: “A Chinese-based map depicts Europe between 1157 and 1166”
19. (15 January 2022) – 2022 International Zheng He Forum (online); title: “Chinese explored Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica long before the Europeans”
18. (25 January 2021) – Hon Wah College in Hong Kong; title: “Zheng He sailed to North America before Columbus”
17. (26 December 2020) – Love Reading Campaign in Hong Kong; title: “The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He”
16. (5 September 2020) – 2021 International Zheng He Forum; title: “Chinese explored Cape Breton Island long before the Europeans” ; http://www.yhhzf.com/article_info.asp?id=63
15. (4 July 2020) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Study Group; title: “The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He”
14. (23 May 2020) – Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong); title: “The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He; http://www.royalasiaticsociety.org.hk/events/2020/5/23/online-lecture-the-last-journey-of-the-san-bao-eunuch-admiral-zheng-he-dr-sheng-wei-wang
13. (20 March 2020) – Joint Meeting of the Executive Global Network (EGN) Founding Chairmen’s Group and the CEO Pioneers Group, Hong Kong; title: “The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He”
as inexperienced handling may cause unnecessary injuring to themselves12. (11 December 2019) – Royal Geographical Society (Hong Kong); title: “Did Admiral Zheng He explore America before Christopher Columbus?”; https://www.rgshk.org.hk/events-2019/item/2218-did-admiral-zheng-he-explore-america-before-christopher-columbus.html
11. (19 August 2019) – Institute of Creativity of the Hong Kong Baptist University; “Did Zheng He explore America before Christopher Columbus?”
10. (15 July 2019) – The Clurr Club, Zurich, Switzerland; title: “Did Zheng He explore America before Christopher Columbus?”
9. (14-17 June 2019) – The Cross Straits Forum, Xiamen, China; title: “The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He”
8. (18 November 2018) – Malaysia Zheng He Peace Forum; title: “The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He”
7. (4 November 2018) – New Experience Toastmasters, Hong Kong; title: “Did Zheng He explore America before Christopher Columbus?”
6. (5 May 2017) – Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan; title: “Did Zheng He explore America before Christopher Columbus?”
5. (13 July 2017) – Keynote speaker at MISG Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; title: “The impact of Zheng He’s voyages to the world”; https://globalilluminators.org/dr-wang-sheng-wei-kuala-lumpur-malaysia/
4. (14 July 2017) – MISG Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; title: “Zheng He’s seventh voyage: navigational routes, timelines and evidence”
3. (16 May 2017) – Taian University, Taian, Shandong, China; title: “New Evidence for Zheng He’s exploration of the Americas”; www.skorakhir.com/2017/0512/c385a29807/pagem.htm
2. (14 February 2017) – The Zheng He Society in Taipei, Taiwan; title: “Did Zheng He explore America before Christopher Columbus?”
- (16 October 2014) – EGN, Hong Kong; title: “Did Zheng He explore America before Christopher Columbus?”
Interviews/Media appearances
- 15日九月2015年 – “發現美洲的是鄭和？” – 香港文匯報
－－王勝煒述其新作《鄭和發現美洲之新解》
http://paper.wenweipo.com/2015/09/14/FC1509140001.htm
(“Did Zheng He discover America?”) －Wenwei Po
Sheng -Wei Wang and her new book A New Interpretation of Zheng He’s Discovery of America
15 Sept. 2015