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 excited to announce Dr Wang’s new book, Chinese Explored Asia Long Before the Europeans: An Ancient World Map Tells All. Now available in Asia and soon to be released worldwide.
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).
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…
As the summer warmth sets in, Dr Wang continues the search to match the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 《坤舆万国全图》to their real life counterparts. In this sneakpeak of her article, Dr. Wang examines whether the Shui Chao…
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:…
As Autumn (or Spring for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere) approaches and school begins for many, Dr Wang has found new information to learn in the coming year. In history classes, Dr Wang’s new discovery shows that the map, Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 《坤輿萬國全 圖/坤舆万国全图》, by Matteo Ricci continues to derive from Chinese sources – this time in regards to the Korean peninsula. As with her previous findings, the information is not of Europeans sources as the Eurocentric history once led us to believe. Below is a sneak-peek at her up-coming work on the Korean peninsula!
When we think of Sino-European relations, we think of the Silk Road or today’s heated politics in Europe. But as today’s world has shown us, reality is much more complicated. In today’s paper, once more Dr Wang has a unique view on the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu《坤舆 万国全图》or Complete Geographical Map of All the Kingdoms of the World published by Matteo Ricci in 1602 in China. Here, she argues that this map shows a glimpse of the complicated European political landscape between 1157 and1166 which overlaps with the Southern Song Dynasty. Furthermore, she argues that a Sino-European relationship goes back long before the Common Era.