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)
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An Ancient World Map Shows Chinese Exploration of Southeast Asia in 1432‒1433 long before the Europeans
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… Read More »An Ancient World Map Shows Chinese Exploration of Southeast Asia in 1432‒1433 long before the Europeans
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
In Memory of Our Dear Friend, Dr Hwa-Wei Lee
We are saddened by the news of the passing of Dr Hwa-Wei Lee on the 17 of December, 2023 at the age of 92. Throughout… Read More »In Memory of Our Dear Friend, Dr Hwa-Wei Lee
Doctoral Academic Reviews of Dr Wang’s Publication: Chinese Global Exploration in Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map
Dr Hwa-Wei Lee, Dr John A. Ruskamp, Jr. and Dr Lynne Chow share their valuable insights on Dr Wang’s new publication, Chinese Global Exploration in Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map.
Reviews of Dr Wang’s Publication: Chinese Global Exploration in Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map
Sometimes when a book is written by an academic with a doctoral degree, it is generally seen as “unfriendly” to the “outsider” reader and keeps… Read More »Reviews of Dr Wang’s Publication: Chinese Global Exploration in Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map
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A Chinese-based world map depicts Africa in 1433
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.