The Chinese Origin Of The Age Of Discovery
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The Chinese Origin Of The Age Of Discovery
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Author : Chao Chien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07
The Chinese Origin Of The Age Of Discovery written by Chao Chien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with categories.
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 With over 300 illustrations of evidence comprising of extant European historical documents and maps, this work challenges European orthodox history of the Age of discovery head on.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?
The Chinese Origin Of The Age Of Discovery
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Author : Chao C. Chien
language : en
Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated
Release Date : 2012-07-01
The Chinese Origin Of The Age Of Discovery written by Chao C. Chien and has been published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with History categories.
The likely real history of the Age of Discovery has been recovered in this startling 300+ page volume. Extant maps and documents of the period are meticulously researched and analyzed to arrive at the unexpected but clear reconstruction. The evidence is shown in over 300 illustrations. Debates on the subject have raged for years. The new research promises to settle the dispute once and for all, or inflame the issue in a big way. CHINESE LANGUAGE EDITION.
Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre Columbian Era Evidence From An Ancient World Map
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Author : Sheng-wei Wang
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2023-10-16
Chinese Global Exploration In The Pre Columbian Era Evidence From An Ancient World Map written by Sheng-wei Wang and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-16 with History categories.
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:
The Hunt For The Dragon 2nd Edition
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Author : Chao C. Chien
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-09-30
The Hunt For The Dragon 2nd Edition written by Chao C. Chien and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-30 with categories.
The Age of Discovery was a fabulous yet mysterious time. Beginning from early fifteenth century Europeans took to the sea in droves. The result is the discovery of entire heretofore unknown landmasses, including the Americas, Australia, Greenland, Iceland, and others. Indeed that is why the time is known as the Age of Discovery. From the European point of view Europeans "discovered" these places. Today we hail personalities such as Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan and the like as heroes. Yet we know pitifully little about the history of the period. There are scant official records. Most of what we take as history is in fact basically legends and mythology. Facts are in short supply. Is the name America really derived from from Amerigo Vespucci, a minor adventurer who did not explore the new continents? Today even textbooks attribute the honor to him, but in fact we have no proof that the name America was indeed derived from the name Amerigo. Why are American Natives called Indians? Are they from India? Hardly. Then why do we call them Indians? Where did the name California come from? Is that an Indian name? Nobody knows. The fact is, the Age of Discovery is full of such conundrums and questionable assertions. Much of what is accepted as history is in fact false. Yes, Christopher Columbus did not discover America! Da Gama, who was credited with opening the sea route from Europe to the East, was a savage and brutal man. Hern�n Cort�s, who conquered Mexico, was a failed legal scholar that could not make good at home and took to adventures. His cousin Francisco Pizarro, who conquered the Incas and founded Peru, was an illiterate, uneducated, illegitimate son of a minor military man. Our heroes of exploration were across-the-board ruffians. What drove them to risk their lives for greatness? In the prequel of the present book, The Chinese Origin of the Age of Discovery (now 2nd Edition), the case is made that some five hundred years ago Europeans took to the sea because they had inherited the knowledge of the world from the Chinese. At the beginning of the 15th century the Chinese Ming Dynasty had a civil war. At the end the young emperor was defeated by his uncle and vanished. Most thought he died, but the victorious uncle, who was now the new emperor, thought the ex-emperor had escaped overseas, so he built the greatest fleet the world had never seen before to go after him. Thus the Ming fleet roamed the waters of the world for thirty years, and its exploits were learned by the Europeans, who utilized the Chinese sea charts to go to sea, ushering in the Age of Discovery. Ironically, today historians are unsure of the true purpose of these grand expeditions, and the history of the period is largely lost. In its place absurd theories disguised as history took hold. Now it is claimed that the Ming fleets were enacted to spread the glory of the Ming civilization, to promote international commerce, and proselytize the messages of peace, and the greatest nation on Earth at the time had t do it for 30 years! In the mean time, the biggest mystery of them all: the disappearance of ex-Emperor Jianwen, was left unsolved. Yet, there exist a host of evidence-seemingly unrelated historical tidbits, often unexplainable and ignored-that can shed light on the events of the time. For one, the Ming fleets consistently sailed west. Does that not tell us something? Surprisingly, these historical remnants are not found in the Chinese archives, but in European documents and consciousness. As the extension of The Chinese Origin of the Age of Discovery, 2nd Edition (ISBN 978-1548435554), The Hunt for the Dragon delves into the mysterious events of the world of six hundred years ago, and offers a shocking take on the extraordinary incidents that now mostly have been forgotten. Have we been propagandizing a wrong history all this time? You get to be the judge.
The Image Of China In The Age Of Discovery
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Author : Roy Neil Schantz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
The Image Of China In The Age Of Discovery written by Roy Neil Schantz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with China categories.
1421 The Year China Discovered The World
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Author : Gavin Menzies
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2003-11-25
1421 The Year China Discovered The World written by Gavin Menzies and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-25 with History categories.
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.
Ancient Chinese Discovery And The Future Of The World
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Author : Wee Chong Tan
language : en
Publisher: Joseph Needham Museum of Ancient Chinese Discovery, Canadian College for Chinese Studies
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Ancient Chinese Discovery And The Future Of The World written by Wee Chong Tan and has been published by Joseph Needham Museum of Ancient Chinese Discovery, Canadian College for Chinese Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with categories.
Age Of Discovery
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Author : Kelly Mass
language : en
Publisher: Efalon Acies
Release Date :
Age Of Discovery written by Kelly Mass and has been published by Efalon Acies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
The epoch often referred to as The Age of Discovery, alternatively known as The Age of Exploration, characterizes a pivotal era spanning the transition from the 15th century to the 18th century in European history. It was a time brimming with maritime expeditions led by intrepid European sailors, venturing into uncharted territories across the globe. Foremost among these adventurers were the Portuguese and Spanish, whose expansive voyages overseas left an indelible mark on European culture. Notably, their encounters with and subsequent colonization of the Americas signified a profound shift in global dynamics. This era also witnessed the ascendancy of colonialism as a prevailing governmental doctrine in various European realms, earning it the moniker of the inaugural wave of European colonization. The dawn of European exploration can be traced back to Portugal's ventures beyond the confines of the Mediterranean, with their pioneering expeditions to the Canary Islands in 1336 marking a significant turning point. Subsequent milestones include the Portuguese annexation of the Atlantic islands of Madeira and Azores in 1419 and 1427, respectively. This was followed by extensive explorations along the West African coastline, culminating in Vasco da Gama's groundbreaking establishment of a maritime route to India in 1498. Meanwhile, under the sponsorship of the Crown of Castile (Spain), Christopher Columbus embarked on his epochal transatlantic voyages between 1492 and 1504, initiating the European colonization of the Americas. Ferdinand Magellan, with Juan Sebastián Elcano completing his expedition, achieved the first circumnavigation of the globe from 1519 to 1522. These endeavors, spanning across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, alongside terrestrial expeditions across continents, continued well into the late 19th century, succeeded by polar exploration in the 20th century.
New Discoveries In China
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Author : Danielle Elisseeff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
New Discoveries In China written by Danielle Elisseeff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with China categories.
Making The New World Their Own
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Author : Qiong Zhang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-05-26
Making The New World Their Own written by Qiong Zhang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-26 with History categories.
In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"