Secret Maps of the Ancient World
by Charlotte Harris Rees
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Author: Charlotte Harris ReesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-11
ISBN: 1434392783
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: AuthorHouse
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Book Review: From China to Americas (Fu Sang) according to Harris Maps
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an interesting simple book to read with the secret ancient maps to find out who came to Americas before Columbus.
With the ancient maps, she took up what her father left off in the belief the maps illustrated the locations in the Chinese book Shan Hai Jing (The Classic of Mountains and Seas). This Classic mentioned about strange people, customs, animals, flora and fauna, especially Fu Sang, East of China, believed to be America.
Rees started a wonderful journey on Olmec Civilization, the relics were closely connected to Shang Dynasty of China. Of interest was Chapter 7 which she compared items common to China and the Americas before Columbus in art, clothing, construction, custom, beliefs, gardening, mathematics and science, musical instruments, technology and worships. It is remarkable that Chinese writing was found in America and Chinese words in Indian languages.
She devoted Chapters 9 and 10 on Shan Hai Jing with reference to her father's book. I list two books on in complete translations so that interested reader can gain access. Chapter 10 quoted the descriptions to match the animals in Americas.
The subsequent chapters elaborated on the Pacific Ocean currents and Chinese maritime technology. This combination made Chinese visitors to Americas possible. The chapter on DNA made a convincing relationship of American Indians and Asians in their body, facial and dental features.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Penguin Classics)A Chinese Bestiary : Strange Creatures from the Guideways Through Mountains and SeasThe Asiatic Fathers of America: Chinese Discovery & Colonization of Ancient AmericaGods from the Far East: How The Chinese Discovered America (Forgotten Books)
Chapter 16 challenged the conventional wisdom of 500 years American history after Columbus. Why the previous 3500 years were intentionally hidden or destroyed. She mentioned Maya, Aztecs, Chan Chan with a Chinese root.
The last chapter asked who, when and where the first people came to the Americas. However, she compared the prejudice of Caucasians and 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China against foreign missionary families. As a missionary China loving family, I suggest her to study Chinese history from Opium War to Boxers in Chinese victim perspective. Why Boxers picked on the men of God who preached agape? Check it out.
I would like to point out that P.45 on the religious practices of dog sacrifice in America and Asia. In Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 mentioned about straw dog as a sacrifice object. Having studied the Harris Maps 1-7, I see that they are the variation of the same map with Fu Sang in 3 separate locations. Map 5 is not a clear copy to decipher the seals which could mean personal property or examination. If official approved, seal would carry name and title.
Charlotte linked Shan Hai Jing, the maps, Fu Sang and Americas with a good story to challenge Europe-center American history. The stones and hearts of Americas support and confirm her thesis.
Summary of Secret Maps of the Ancient World
Secret Maps of the Ancient World is a spell-binding book which presents a compelling case for ancient Chinese voyagers coming to the Americas. Reading the book, I felt like I had fallen into the archives for the movie, National Treasure - only this time, it's real!! Diana Waring, author of world history curriculum and international speaker "The Harris collection of maps will in the long run, cause an even more fundamental and agonizing reappraisal of American history than my book has" Gavin Menzies, NY Times bestselling author of 1421 and now 1434 This scholarly and yet easy to read book is a major contribution to the early history of the Americas and the relations to China and other parts of Asia. There is much evidence that Chinese were in America before Columbus. Based on the rare Asian maps collection of her late father, Dr. Hendon M. Harris, the author has painstakingly researched, including using the resources of the Library of Congress, to present her findings that Chinese had indeed traveled by sea to the Americas since 2000 B.C. Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, Retired Chief of Asian Div. Library of Congress Dean Emeritus, Ohio University Libraries "Charlotte Harris Rees, true to her distinguished pioneer father Hendon, resumes affronting usually-bypassed primary evidence free of the 19th-century dogmas with refreshing skeptical common sense" Dr. Cyclone Covey, professor emeritus History,Americas Books
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