NEWS EVENT: July, 2003 update of 'New World' discovery theory, author Gavin Menzies' book:
"1421-The Year China Discovered The World"
China Seas Voyaging Society continually seeks to fulfill its mission and purpose of increasing the
awareness of the world to the impact of the Chinese Junk sailing vessel as a living showcase of the
arts and culture of the ancient and modern Chinese people and thus presents the following
"historically astounding theory" as published in the following book.........
.... 1421 The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies, Pub: Bantam Press, London.
"....On the 8th of March, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China.
The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's
loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians
beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. The jouney would last over two years and circle the globe.
When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so
recently embraced. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. Lost was
the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century
before Magellan. They had also discovered Antarctica, reached Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook and
solved the problem of longitude three hundred years before the Europeans......"
This excerpt and much more can be found at the website:
"The Year China Discovered The World" http://www.1421.tv