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…
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”.
While the rest of us are now in the full swing of fall with school, work and anticipation of the holiday season, Dr Wang has new findings on the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu《坤輿萬國全圖/坤舆万国全图》, specifically, the region…
We are pleased to announce that on 11 July 2024, Dr Wang attended the The Zheng He Cultural and Art Festival and the Maritime Silk Road Expo after an invitation by the Jiangsu Provincial Zheng…
As fall approaches and the leaves change, most of us look forward to the start of the holiday season. Meanwhile, Dr Wang has been busy studying the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 《坤輿萬國全圖/坤舆万国全图》once more to demonstrate that…
In this chapter, 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 takes us to the Indian subcontinent and its…
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…
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.
As children, we all learn about who discovered America. However, all those figures are Europeans. In this paper, Dr Wang analysis the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu《坤輿萬國全圖》or Complete Geographical Map of All the Kingdoms of the World published by Matteo Ricci in 1602. What she found is that contrary to popular belief, the Americas shown are not the result of European information, but Chinese sourced from Pre-Columbian times. Moreover, it shows the political landscape of the Americas in the 1420s and evidence for much earlier Chinese voyages.
Africa is one of those places that those, in the Global North, either do not think about or only have a superficial knowledge about. However, like any other human-inhabited continent on earth, Africa is made up of many countries and has a very long history. In today’s paper, Dr Wang takes us on a journey to the early days of Sino-African exchanges. The Chinese-based world map Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 《坤輿萬國全圖》or Complete Geographical Map of All the Kingdoms of the World is long thought to be a copy of European maps. However, Dr Wang argues the map is derived from Chinese sources that originated in the year 1433, during the last of the seven Ming voyages.