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The 1763 copy of a 1418 world map discovered in Shanghai and unveiled in January 2006 will be critically analysed by Gavin Menzies, author of the controversial book "1421, the Year China Discovered the World" published in 2002. The map shows geographical features that could only have been gathered by Cheng Wo and other Chinese explorers. Gavin Menzies will elaborate on Cheng Wo’s seven voyages which probably reached America at least 70 years before Columbus and Australia 250 years before Cook.
For the first time in Hong Kong, a Pre-Columbus Chinese Medal unearthed near North Carolina in USA will be unveiled by its owner Dr. Siu-leung Lee (previously the associate director of Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology) who was once a critic of Menzies’ ideas but now believes Cheng Wo’s seventh and final voyage in 1430 did include North America. He will present supporting archaeological evidence including tantalizing theories about the Chinese influence on the development of native American ceramics.
Media representatives are invited to attend this public lecture organized by the Faculty of Education and the Departments of Chinese and History. The details are:
Date: 16 June 2006 (Friday)
Time: 5pm – 6 pm lecture
6pm – 7pm reception
Venue: Lecture Theatre P4, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU
Topic: "From Nanjing to North Carolina ?"
Speakers: Gavin Menzies and Dr. Siu-leung Lee
Medium: English
For media enquiries, please contact HKU Faculty of Education Dr. J.R. Day at 9487 1514 or Ms. Cherry Cheung, Senior Press Officer, HKU at 2859 2606.
Did China Discover the World?
15 Jun 2006
The conventional history that the "new world" was "discovered" by European explorers will be challenged tomorrow in a public lecture at HKU by renowned academics with new evidence that Admiral Cheng Wo may have visited North America’s East Coast before Columbus.
The 1763 copy of a 1418 world map discovered in Shanghai and unveiled in January 2006 will be critically analysed by Gavin Menzies, author of the controversial book "1421, the Year China Discovered the World" published in 2002. The map shows geographical features that could only have been gathered by Cheng Wo and other Chinese explorers. Gavin Menzies will elaborate on Cheng Wo’s seven voyages which probably reached America at least 70 years before Columbus and Australia 250 years before Cook.
For the first time in Hong Kong, a Pre-Columbus Chinese Medal unearthed near North Carolina in USA will be unveiled by its owner Dr. Siu-leung Lee (previously the associate director of Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology) who was once a critic of Menzies’ ideas but now believes Cheng Wo’s seventh and final voyage in 1430 did include North America. He will present supporting archaeological evidence including tantalizing theories about the Chinese influence on the development of native American ceramics.
Media representatives are invited to attend this public lecture organized by the Faculty of Education and the Departments of Chinese and History. The details are:
Date: 16 June 2006 (Friday)
Time: 5pm – 6 pm lecture
6pm – 7pm reception
Venue: Lecture Theatre P4, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, HKU
Topic: "From Nanjing to North Carolina ?"
Speakers: Gavin Menzies and Dr. Siu-leung Lee
Medium: English
For media enquiries, please contact HKU Faculty of Education Dr. J.R. Day at 9487 1514 or Ms. Cherry Cheung, Senior Press Officer, HKU at 2859 2606.
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