1421 Chinese discovered america

Home page for the book and the ongoing research surrounding it.

Okay, it seems a little far-fetched, and I’m not completely sold on the American colony of Chinese people part, but there are some really interesting verifiable factoids in this book.

For example, the Ming “Treasure Fleets” which were designed to bring the entire world into the Chinese “tribute system” and which basically bankrupted China. A large failing of the Fleet was the lack of markets- just as in 1946, there was only one industrial power and no markets to sell to. In the fifteenth century, the rest of the world was still mostly in the dark ages.

My to-do list from this book:

• go to Patagonia
• eat Fusang (S. America)
• See the Stone of Letters on the Cape Verde Islands (Janela, Africa)
• eat blue eggs (s. America)
• learn more about Venetian explorer Niccolo da Conti
• plant maize, beans, and squash all together

Also, Dr John Furry of the Natural History Museum of Norther California is studying a Chinese junk wrecked in a sandbank in the Sacramento River. Furthermore Gavin Menzies postulates there was a Chinese colony of decended from the Treasure Ships here in the bay area.

The web site is pretty extensive. It is intended to be a hub for all the news of evidence and studies verifying the (very large number of) claims made by this book.

Avenues of investigation not listed on their site:

• the remains of the now-extinct warrah, a fox found on the Falkland Islands, could be tested for similarities in DNA to Chinese dogs, to verify the dogs’ escape there
• rubbings or pictures from the “Malayam” inscribed on the Stone of Letters, a marking of explorers
• rubbings or pictures from the Aboriginal Austrailian carving at Hawkesbury River (north of Sydney, Australia), depicting “Visitors” (ostensibly Chinese)
• rubbings or pictures from the Ruapuke stone, at the mouth of the Torei Palma Rivier at Whaingaroa (North Island, New Zealand)
• …for that matter, photos of all the artifacts associated with the Ruapuke wreck

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