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• The basic premises for this book: My father’s maps are in Korean atlases. The primitive world maps in these atlases show Fu Sang on the American coastline. They are written in Chinese characters and seventy-two percent of the place names are from the Shan Hai Jing1—a Chinese geography written around 2000 BC. Therefore, my father and others believed...
• Since we are discussing the Chinese, I attempt to stay within a historical timeline of China. From 1995 to 2000, hundreds of Chinese academics from numerous disciplines conducted an exhaustive study that concluded that China’s first dynasty, the Xia, started about 2070 BC and that the culture was far more advanced than previously thought.2 There is...
• There are unexplained indicators of advanced civilizations appearing suddenly in the Americas starting around 2000 BC as well as items from the Americas found in Asia dating to the same time period. Numerous examples3 include banana leaves and old world cotton found in the Americas, and American peanuts found in more than one Chinese site. Because ...
• Writings attributed to China’s first dynasty and quoted throughout Chinese history claim travels to the ends of the earth. Other ancient Chinese writings indicate knowledge of the Americas. One Chinese writer in the third century BC stated that Fu Sang was 10,000 li (3,300 miles) wide—almost the exact width of North America—and had enormous trees. ...
• Even with simple boats, distant travel was possible using prevailing ocean currents. From at least the Warring States period, 403-221 BC, and onward, Chinese wrote about one eastward flowing current that they named “Wei Lu.”4 In the 20th century, several groups demonstrated that they could cross the Pacific on rafts or very small boats floating on ...