BEIJING -- Forgive Gavin Menzies for feeling a little defensive. His book, "1421: The Year China Discovered America," may be selling briskly in the United States, but his extraordinary theory that ...

Kunyu Wanguo Quantu and maritime artefacts prove China explored the world earlier than Eurocentric accounts suggest, scholar argues Scholar and author Sheng-Wei Wang discusses how studying an ancient ...

What first made you suspect that it was Chinese explorers and not Europeans who launched the true Age of Discovery? The European Age of Discovery followed Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Americas ...