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… Read More »Determining the Origin and Era of Asia as Depicted to the North of China on the First Chinese World Map
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… Read More »An Ancient World Map Depicts West and Central Asia in 1433
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… Read More »Where are Shui Chao Feng 水潮峰 and Snow Mountain 雪山, cited on the first Chinese world map?
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)
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… Read More »An Ancient World Map Depicts the Indian Subcontinent and Its Eastern Periphery in the Period 1432–1433
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
While most of us are thinking of summer holidays at the beach as summer approaches, Dr Wang has been busy studying the Chinese portion of… Read More »An Ancient World Map Depicts China in 1433
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
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.
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!