
They believe that the Chinese reached [the Americas] before Columbus.
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2025-06-01 | ISBN: 978-7-5199-1766-1
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Introduction
Who was the first to set foot on the Americas? The premise of this question excludes the indigenous peoples who have been living and thriving on the Americas for tens of thousands of years, known as the Native Americans. In the civilized world, every child, regardless of their skin color or ethnicity, is taught the same name: Christopher Columbus. However, many people, whether based on research or personal reflection, have begun to question this historical answer. In early 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the author received an invitation from Douglas Preston, President of the American Authors Guild, to travel to the United States and interview over a dozen researchers who firmly believe that “the Chinese reached the Americas before Columbus.” These researchers included historians, archaeologists, geologists, geography experts, architecture professors, NASA engineers, World War II American veterans, and descendants of missionaries whose ancestors had lived in China. They believe that Christopher Columbus, who crossed the Atlantic in 1492 and thought he had arrived in India, was definitely not the first person to “discover” the American continent. Based on their research and reasoning, the interviewees firmly believe that, in addition to the Chinese—who possessed an ancient and advanced civilization and technology—Polynesians, Phoenicians, Greeks, as well as the ancestors from Southeast Asia and the South Pacific islands, had all crossed the oceans to reach the Americas multiple times thousands of years ago. This book is a collection of the author’s interview notes with these researchers.
Steve Jett: We Are All Earthlings.
Alice Kocho: There must have been Chinese people on those small boats that reached the Americas.
Qian Zhaochang: Ancient maps prove that the Chinese arrived in the Americas before Columbus.
Paul Chayson: The ruins tell me that the Chinese had settled in Canada long before.
Charlotte Lidds: The mountains and rivers of the Americas were already recorded in the Shan Hai Jing (Classic of Mountains and Seas).
Li Zhaoliang: People from the Ming Dynasty definitely arrived in the Americas.
Menzies: In 1421, the Chinese discovered the world.
John Roskamp: The cold stones can speak.
Steve Akinso: More and more people believe the Chinese arrived here first.
Huang Siyuan: The Danes were shaking boats to cross the sea in search of Xu Fu.
Li Murray: I have half Chinese blood, and I absolutely believe Hui Shen reached the Americas.
The voices that will not fade—They once strongly asserted that the Chinese had already reached the Americas.