8 May 2026 We have presented many of Dr Sheng-Wei Wang’s academic presentations and showcased her published works. While these are important to furthering scholarship, Dr Wang also understands that knowledge is something to be…
The 2025 Commonwealth of World Chinatowns Conference (Ancient Maritime Silk Road to the Cosmos) in Penang, Malaysia has successfully concluded with Dr Wang’s appearance on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of September 2025. During this…
We are pleased to announce that on the 3rd of September 2025, Dr Sheng-Wei Wang will be a presenter at the 2025 Commonwealth of World Chinatowns Conference (Ancient Maritime Silk Road to the Cosmos) in Penang, Malaysia (link to programme here). At 3:45 PM, Dr Wang will be presenting her work featured in her latest book, Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map (2023).
We are pleased to announce the New Asia Currents: NAC Focus has added four new webpages featuring Dr Sheng-Wei Wang’s work on pre-Columbian Chinese voyages.
NAC Focus archives editorial projects on specific subjects to supplement the 2025 release of New Asia Currents. New Asia Currents outlines their editorial purposes, audience and objectives here. These include publising projects for people interested in “Frontiers of Art, Science & Human Civilisations”.
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:…
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 Columbus?” and “Did Chinese Explorers land on Australia’s shores almost 200 years before…
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.