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Book Synopsis Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre-columbian Era: Evidence From An Ancient World Map by : Sheng-wei Wang
Download or read book Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre-columbian Era: Evidence From An Ancient World Map written by Sheng-wei Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agreement among scholars that certain areas seem to have been mapped out prior to the arrival of Western explorers.Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map analyses the world's first modern map — known as Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (KWQ) 《坤輿萬國全圖》 in Chinese, translated as the 'Complete Geographical Map of All Kingdoms of the World' to demonstrate evidence of Chinese global exploration in the Pre-Columbian era. The map of concern was first printed by Italian missionary, Matteo Ricci in 1602, and has been purported to be of entirely European origin, based on Ricci's former maps which he had brought to China in 1582.This book, thus, seeks to be transformational in presenting essential new insights on Pre-Columbian world history and Chinese global exploration, moving away from the norm of the studies of geography and cartography by:
Book Synopsis New World Secrets on Ancient Asian Maps by : Charlotte Harris Rees
Download or read book New World Secrets on Ancient Asian Maps written by Charlotte Harris Rees and published by Light Messages Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Harris Rees is an independent researcher, a retired federal employee, and an honors graduate of Columbia International University. She has diligently studied the possibility of very early arrival of Chinese to America. In 2003 Rees and her brother took the Harris Map Collection to the Library of Congress where it remained for three years while being studied. In 2006 she published an abridged version of her father's, The Asiatic Fathers of America: Chinese Discovery and Colonization of Ancient America. Her Secret Maps of the Ancient World came out in 2008. In 2011 she released Chinese Sailed to America Before Columbus: More Secrets from the Dr. Hendon M. Harris, Jr. Map Collection. In 2013 she published Did Ancient chinese Explore America? Her books are listed by World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies.
Book Synopsis The Chinese Origin of the Age of Discovery by : Chao Chien
Download or read book The Chinese Origin of the Age of Discovery written by Chao Chien and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a frivolous stunt. The early history of the European Age of Discovery, as many already have suspected, is largely legendary. Columbus did not discover America. Magellan did not discover "his strait." And yes, Marco Polo did not go to China. In this book, the lost history is reconstructed from extant documents, mostly European, and their analyses thereof, providing irrefutable proofs, shown in over 300 illustrations. Are all these wild sensational claims? No. They are what evidence shows, and that is what this book is about, the evidence and its analyses. Indeed, Europeans going to sea in the fifteenth century and ushering in the Age of Discovery was the result of coming into geographical knowledge of the world inherited from the Chinese, which infers that the Chinese had explored and charted the world's landmasses before the Europeans. Christopher Columbus went on his ventures with such information in hand. Such are the conclusions arrived at by history researcher/author Chao C. Chien's lifelong work, the entire thesis of which is presented in this definitive volume. With over 300 illustrations of evidence comprising of extant European historical documents and maps, this work challenges European orthodox history of the Age of discovery head on. Little known in the West, at the very beginning of the fifteenth century, and the infancy of the Ming Dynasty, China endured a civil war that lasted four years. At the end, the Prince of Yan (garrison commander of Beijing) ousted the sitting emperor, his nephew Jianwen, and became the Yongle Emperor, one of the mightiest rulers of Chinese history. Suspecting that his nephew had fled overseas, he commissioned the largest naval squadron the world had seen, to be led by his confidante the eunuch Zheng He, to go after him. Indeed, the fate of the Jianwen Emperor remains a mystery today. (The possible outcome is addressed in the follow-up volume to this book, The Hunt for the Dragon, 2nd Edition.) Zheng He went to sea seven times between 1405 and 1433. It is generally alleged that he roamed the Indian Ocean for the purposes of spreading the Ming Dynasty culture and promoting trade. China produced upward of one third of the world's GDP at the time, and it needed Zheng He to drum up business? Ridiculous! That tells you how far off base the pedants have been. Part of the reasons for this kind of historical propaganda is because Zheng He's trips were kept as state secret. Little was documented on it officially. However, while the history of Zheng He is scant in China, evidence of his exploits is found in Western archives. In fact, maps of the Middle Ages show that the Chinese fleet sailed into the Atlantic Ocean, right at the time when the Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator began interested in going to sea. All sounds incredible, were it not for the numerous records attesting to the lost history kept in some of the most prestigious institution of the West, including the royal archives of Spain and Portugal, the British Library, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Library of Congress, and various private collections in Italy, Germany, and even the Topkapı Palace museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Now, we should understand that China had been a seafaring nation for ages. During the Yuan Dynasty Mongol occupation of the fourteenth century, Chinese and other conquered seafaring people, including the Koreans and Arabs, were dispatched to map the world for further Mongol conquests. The maps were used by the following Ming Dynasty in the pursuit of the Jianwen Emperor, and these maps fell into European hands. This process is reconstructed in this book. It reads like a meticulous detective report, but it is real history. At the end, when all is said and done, the "lost" history is restored. However, will you believe it?
Download or read book The Assault on Reason written by Al Gore and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful indictment of the Bush-led radical Right's disdain for the principles of reasoned decision-making, and a rallying cry for a return to reason-based policies at home and abroad.
Book Synopsis 1421: The Year China Discovered The World by : Gavin Menzies
Download or read book 1421: The Year China Discovered The World written by Gavin Menzies and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were destroyed. And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook... The result of fifteen years research, 1421 is Gavin Menzies' enthralling account of the voyage of the Chinese fleet, the remarkable discoveries he made and the persuasive evidence to support them: ancient maps, precise navigational knowledge, astronomy and the surviving accounts of Chinese explorers and the later European navigators as well as the traces the fleet left behind - from sunken junks to the votive offerings left by the Chinese sailors wherever they landed, giving thanks to Shao Lin, goddess of the sea. Already hailed as a classic, this is the story of an extraordinary journey of discovery that not only radically alters our understanding of world exploration but also rewrites history itself.
Book Synopsis Qing Colonial Enterprise by : Laura Hostetler
Download or read book Qing Colonial Enterprise written by Laura Hostetler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing China both participated in and helped shape the new emphasis on empirical scientific knowledge that was simultaneously transforming Europe—and its colonial empires—at the time. Although mapping in China is almost as old as Chinese civilization itself, the Qing insistence on accurate, to-scale maps of their territory was a new response to the difficulties of administering a vast and growing empire. Likewise, direct observation became increasingly important to Qing ethnographic writings, such as the illustrated manuscripts known as "Miao albums" (from which twenty color paintings are reproduced in this book). These were intended to educate Qing officials about various non-Han peoples so that they could govern these groups more effectively.Hostetler's groundbreaking account will interest anyone studying the history of the early modern period and colonialism.
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Book Synopsis Asiatic Echoes by : John Arthur Ruskamp, Jr.
Download or read book Asiatic Echoes written by John Arthur Ruskamp, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEWLY REVISED & UPDATED! This, the 3rd edition of Asiatic Echoes, includes the study's highly significant Supplemental Reports #1 PLUS images of 54 previously unpublished ancient Chinese pictogram-glyph writings. For centuries, researchers have been debating if, in pre-Columbian times, meaningful exchanges between the indigenous peoples of Asia and the Americas might have taken place. Many sinologists have written positively on this topic, yet, so far, no conclusive proof has been put forth establishing such trans-Pacific contact as a historical event. This book introduces previously unrecognized ancient written evidence that in pre-Columbian times, multiple intellectual exchanges took place between Chinese and North American populations. Using the novel integration of the legal construct of substantial similarity with the comparative statistical tool of Jaccard's Index of Similarity, the Chinese origin of 107 North American petroglyphs and pictographs is established. Here is demonstrable epigraphic proof that Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas long before the first European voyagers, but that they interacted positively with Native North American people on multiple occasions over an extended period of time, approximately 2500 YBP.
Download or read book 1434 written by Gavin Menzies and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China--then the world's most technologically advanced civilization--provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today.--From amazon.com.
Book Synopsis Global History with Chinese Characteristics by : Manuel Perez-Garcia
Download or read book Global History with Chinese Characteristics written by Manuel Perez-Garcia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a “power paradox” or “supremacy dilemma”. This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.
Book Synopsis The Columbian Exchange (by) Alfred W. Crosby, Jr. Foreword by Otto Von Mering by : Alfred W. Crosby
Download or read book The Columbian Exchange (by) Alfred W. Crosby, Jr. Foreword by Otto Von Mering written by Alfred W. Crosby and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American History: A Very Short Introduction by : Paul S. Boyer
Download or read book American History: A Very Short Introduction written by Paul S. Boyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Book Synopsis Fantastic Archaeology by : Stephen Williams
Download or read book Fantastic Archaeology written by Stephen Williams and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape of the nineteenth century, Williams asserts, is dotted with fakes, frauds, and humbugs whose fantastic claims of purported findings would make even P. T. Barnum blush. In Fantastic Archaeology, Williams takes them all on with gusto—illuminating, debunking, and instructing on the modes, methods, manners, and manifestations of American archaeology through the past two centuries. The author begins his walk on the wild side of North American archaeology with a fascinating introduction to the continent's real past. Then, acting as detective, he answers the questions, Who Found It? Who Done It? Who Twisted the Facts? From solemn old professionals like Samuel Haven to eccentric "odd fishes" like Constantine Rafinesque, from brash "free thinkers" like Harold S. Gladwin to stoic strategists like A. V. Kidder, Williams enthusiastically portrays them all. The big issues are here, too: the quest for the first Americans, the transoceanic search for links to distant civilizations, and the meaning of ancient writings. From monstrous stone giants to mysterious messages from the past, right up to the real story of America's archaeological past, the author unearths a wondrous tale that will amaze, delight, and inform professional and general readers alike.
Book Synopsis The Discoverers by : Daniel J. Boorstin
Download or read book The Discoverers written by Daniel J. Boorstin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
Book Synopsis The Lost Colonies of Ancient America by : Frank Joseph
Download or read book The Lost Colonies of Ancient America written by Frank Joseph and published by New Page Books. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The question is no longer 'Who discovered America?' Thanks to Frank Joseph, the question is now, 'Who didn't discover America?'" --David Goudsward, author, Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration "Here is the history of ancient America you were never taught at school. Frank Joseph, drawing on decades of meticulous research and exploration, has uncovered the evidence that rewrites the history books. A vital addition to the library of anyone seeking knowledge of America's forgotten past." --David Jones, editor, New Dawn Magazine The Original Visitors to the New World Revealed Was America truly unknown to the outside world until Christopher Columbus "discovered" it in 1492? Could a people gifted enough to raise the Great Pyramid more than 4,000 years ago have lacked the skills necessary to build a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic? Did the Phoenicians, who circumnavigated the African continent in 600 bc, never consider sailing farther? Were the Vikings, the most fearless warriors and seafarers of all time, terrified at the prospect of a transoceanic voyage? If so, how are we to account for an Egyptian temple accidentally unearthed by Tennessee Valley Authority workers in 1935? What is a beautifully crafted metal plate with the image of a Phoenician woman doing in the Utah desert? And who can explain the discovery of Viking houses and wharves excavated outside of Boston? These enigmas are but a tiny fraction of the abundant physical proof for Old World visitors to our continent hundreds and thousands of years ago. In addition, Sumerians, Minoans, Romans, Celts, ancient Hebrews, Indonesians, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Welsh, Irish, and the Knights Templar all made their indelible, if neglected, mark on our land.
Book Synopsis Changing Giants the U. S. and China by : Ifay F. Chang
Download or read book Changing Giants the U. S. and China written by Ifay F. Chang and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. and China are the world's two largest countries undergoing rapid changes. If you follow the media, you will find that the US-China relation yoyos from worse to better and better to worse in the past few years while each is changing politically and economically. The recent change in US-China relation for the worse is worrisome to the entire world. The already complex relationship between the two giants is further compounded by the fierce Presidential election in 2016 resulting in a new US administration which prefers to play Trump cards in a no-trump game (bridge jargon). The US new Administration seems to disregard old game rules, conventional suits and existing contracts creating a great uncertainty in her China policy which is troubling and challenging China and bewildering the US allies. China, on the other hand, is gearing up more efforts interjecting her into global affairs while trying to maintain her healthy economic growth and keeping the U.S. at arm's length. Will the two giants change for the better or worse is the author's quest for answer in his writings. Changing Giants - The U.S. and China is Dr. Chang's third book following Understanding the US and China (2015) and US-China Relations (2014) to track the development of the U.S. and China and monitor their changing relationship. In this book, Dr, Chang makes close examination on the current events happening between the two nations and interprets their consequences all in light of the unique historical background of each nation. Through the pages of this book, the author hopes that better understanding of the past can lead people to influence the future. The author hopes that the two changing giants will develop a collaborative relationship for the sake of the world peace and prosperity.
Download or read book U.S. History written by P. Scott Corbett and published by . This book was released on 2023-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Book Synopsis Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World by : Victor H. Mair
Download or read book Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World written by Victor H. Mair and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-05-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do civilizations independently invent themselves or are they the result of cultural diffusion? The contributors to this volume do not attempt to provide a definitive answer to this contentious question, one of the most debated issues of the past century. Instead, they shift the focus from theory to reality by presenting empirical evidence on a wide range of cultural phenomena in history and prehistory, thereby demonstrating the processes whereby cultural traits are acquired and modified—the dynamics of transmission and transformation. The range of topics covered in this volume is of extraordinary breadth: the distribution of belt hooks and belts from the steppes to North and Central China; textile exchange in the third millennium B.C.; the spread of bronze metallurgy across Asia; the adaptation of complicated technologies by distant peoples; the mechanisms whereby bronze implements were used to convey political messages in East Asia; the ethnogenesis of the Turks; the complex interrelationships among migratory and settled peoples in western Central Asia during the Bronze Age; the origins of the enigmatic Chinese goddess known as Queen Mother of the West; an account of hunting with trained cheetahs; and the use of abundant botanical and zoological evidence to affirm that the Old World and the New World must have been in contact long before the fifteenth century. Rounding out the volume is a survey of the problem of modernocentrism.
