Guest guest Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 Next week an urbane 65-year-old begins a global publicity campaign to promote his claim that Chinese sailors discovered America 70 years before Columbus and mapped the whole world centuries before European explorers. http://www.msnbc.com/news/828733.asp?0dm=T23ET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 This seems to be an idea whose time has come again. Back in 1972, Swallow Press published Henriette Mertz's book, Pale Ink, which compared descriptions from a Chinese text about travelling [whose name I've forgotten] to descriptions of early America. The parallels she draws were quite astonishing and persuasive. A Buddhist monk may actually have been the feathered serpent. Jim Ramholz , " James Ramholz " <jramholz> wrote: > Next week an urbane 65-year-old begins a global publicity campaign to promote his claim that Chinese sailors discovered America 70 years before Columbus and mapped the whole world centuries before European explorers. > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/828733.asp?0dm=T23ET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 Sorry, I don't mean to belabor the point but . . . in Volume 231 of the Great Chinese Encyclopedia compiled by Ma Tuan-Lin. The Chinese record relates that Hui-Shen, one of five Buddhist monks, arrived in a country they called Fu-Sang in 459 CE, which seems to have been the West Coast of America from British Columbia southward. In , " James Ramholz " <jramholz> wrote: .. . . a Chinese text about travelling [whose name I've forgotten] to descriptions of early America. http://www.msnbc.com/news/828733.asp?0dm=T23ET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 4, 2002 Report Share Posted November 4, 2002 The only comment I would like to make in the reference to the " discovery of America " is that being Native American, nobody " discovered America " we were already here!! Let's be politically correct. Thanks.... - " James Ramholz " <jramholz Friday, November 01, 2002 11:05 PM Re: Chinese discovered America > Sorry, I don't mean to belabor the point but . . . in Volume 231 of > the Great Chinese Encyclopedia compiled by Ma Tuan-Lin. The Chinese > record relates that Hui-Shen, one of five Buddhist monks, arrived in > a country they called Fu-Sang in 459 CE, which seems to have been > the West Coast of America from British Columbia southward. > > > > > In , " James Ramholz " <jramholz> wrote: > .. . . a Chinese text about travelling [whose name I've forgotten] to > descriptions of early America. > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/828733.asp?0dm=T23ET > > > > Chinese Herbal Medicine, a voluntary organization of licensed healthcare practitioners, matriculated students and postgraduate academics specializing in Chinese Herbal Medicine, provides a variety of professional services, including board approved online continuing education. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 4, 2002 Report Share Posted November 4, 2002 The only comment I would like to make in the reference to the "discovery ofAmerica" is that being Native American, nobody "discovered America" we werealready here!! Let's be politically correct. Thanks >>>>I thought we all came from Africa Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 4, 2002 Report Share Posted November 4, 2002 Is this an herbal discussion group? Julie Let's be politically correct. Thanks >>>>I thought we all came from Africa Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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