5 June 2024 Royal Geographical Society (Hong Kong)
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… Read More »5 June 2024 Royal Geographical Society (Hong Kong)
Media Interviews
South China Morning Post’s Articles on Dr Wang’s Work
On 27 and 28 of January 2024, the South China Morning Post published the articles entitled “Did Chinese explorers from the Ming dynasty travel to the Americas decades before… Read More »South China Morning Post’s Articles on Dr Wang’s Work
Talk The Walk Interview: Impact of Zheng He’s Voyages and Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map: China-US Relations
Although, Dr Wang is an academic with writings and speech aimed at the academia, she understands that those mediums might be less approachable to the general public. As such, she engages in more casual formats with the aims of making her findings reachable and enjoyable to all.
In this interview, Dr Wang discusses how many of her arguments, including the importance of the Ming figure, Zheng He (鄭和), influenced or proceeded the European Age of Discovery and what it means to us in this age of rising Sino-Western tensions.