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'Ancient' map could prove China found America first
By Jane Macartney (timesonline.co.uk)
Updated: 2006-01-14 10:01
China, usually swift to hail its triumphs, has been reluctant to take up the
theory, even though, if true, it would revolutionise the Chinese contribution to
world history.
Zhu Jianqiu, an oceanographer with the Chinese navy and a scholar at the
Nanjing Zheng He Institute, said: “In 1421 many maps are mentioned but none of
them has anything to do with Zheng He. Chinese scholars cannot share the
opinions of Mr Menzies.”
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