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5 June 2024 Royal Geographical Society (Hong Kong)

by Dr Wang
June 4, 2024November 22, 2025
Cartography (category), China (category), Kunyu Wanguo Quantu《坤舆万国全图》 (category), Maritime Silk Road (category), Matteo Ricci (category), Media Interviews (category), Pre-Columbian Americas (category), Silk Road (category), Uncategorized (category), World History (category)

We are pleased to announce that on 5 June 2024, Dr Sheng-Wei Wang will give a talk at the Royal Geographical Society (Hong Kong), about her new book, Chinese Global Exploration in the pre-Columbian era:…

An Ancient World Map Shows Chinese Exploration of Southeast Asia in 1432‒1433 long before the Europeans

by Dr Wang
May 1, 2024November 22, 2025
Cartography (category), China (category), Kunyu Wanguo Quantu《坤舆万国全图》 (category), Matteo Ricci (category), Ming dynasty (category), Southeast Asia (category), Uncategorized (category), World History (category)

Dr Wang continues the search for evidence that Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 《坤輿萬國全圖/坤舆万国全图》or Complete Geographical Map of All the Kingdoms of the World is based on Chinese sources. Here she finds evidence showing that the map…

An Ancient World Map Depicts China in 1433

by Dr Wang
May 1, 2024November 22, 2025
Cartography (category), China (category), Korea (category), Kunyu Wanguo Quantu《坤舆万国全图》 (category), Matteo Ricci (category)

While most of us are thinking of summer holidays at the beach as summer approaches, Dr Wang has been busy studying the Chinese portion of the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 《坤輿萬國全圖/坤舆万国全图》(abbreviated as KWQ) or Complete Geographical Map…