Did Chinese explorers from the Ming dynasty travel to the Americas decades before Columbus?

A book on Chinese history by friend of '1421', has posited that the Ming dynasty’s Treasure Fleet journeyed as far as the Americas.

"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 Columbus?” and “Did Chinese Explorers land on Australia’s shores almost 200 years before Europeans?” on the findings which Dr Sheng-Wei Wang found in her new book, Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era: Evidence from an Ancient World Map, called Kunyu Wanguo Quantu 《坤輿萬國全 圖/坤舆万国全图》.

This is a milestone in achievement for a major newspaper with a wide audience to feature Dr Wang’s work and the field of pre-Columbian Chinese voyages.
This is part of the process of decolonising our history and perceptions to open our minds to the possibility for non-European achievement. It is just as important to tell the story that has been forgotten as the story said a thousand times over, because it is still as much a part of our shared human history as any other event. For as long as we deny this truth in the face of a wave of compelling evidence, we deny ourselves our true heritage as human beings."
Dr Wang and her team invite you to see the South China Morning Post articles here on the Americas and here on Australia. Happy reading!

For further details visit her website.

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