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SCMP Open Questions | What an ancient Chinese map reveals about global history and modern power: Sheng-Wei Wang

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…

New Asia Currents: NAC Focus adds Dr. Wang’s work

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…

Chinese Explored Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica Long Before the Europeans

by Dr Wang
June 2, 2022November 22, 2025
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Age of Discovery, Antarctica, Australia, Cartography, Kunyu Wanguo Quantu《坤舆万国全图》, Matteo Ricci, Ming dynasty, New Zealand and Polynesia, World History

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, it is now summertime, but if you live in the Southern hemisphere, it is now winter. Today, this is common knowledge, but what about in antiquity? In this…