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Gavin Menzies claims that the enormous imperial hastily commanded by Admiral Zheng He was the first to visit the Americas and the first to circumnavigate the globe. His book has engendered a glorious amount of controversy, in no puny share to the lack of physical or documentary evidence supporting Menzies’ claims.
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We have all encountered our handsome fraction of TV productions that discuss off-beat or unconventional theories (Atlantis, UFOs, Noah’s Ark, etc. etc. etc.) that credulously note the theory in quiz without offering any well-known analysis. The result of these pseudoscientific “documentaries” is that we are told that the only plausible explanation for various tidbits of evidence can only be the particular off-beat theory in request. Rarely, if ever, are critics or mainstream scholars given a chance to rebut the theory.
Such is not the case with this program, which is basically divided into three parts. The first fragment is a basic history of the known voyages of Zheng He, which went as far as East Africa, making contact in Malaya, India, Arabia, among other lands. The program is indispensable objective for this alone, since most of us have never heard of Zheng He and tend to have a rather Eurocentric opinion of world exploration. The second part gives Gavin Menzies the floor, where he puts forth his theory that Zheng went beyond the Cape, made numerous contacts in the Americas, and the Caribbean, and then completed the circumnavigation of the globe (although this aspect is barely discussed in the program) . Menzies picks out the curious tidbit (a arrangement here, a mysterious mound there, a possible European link with China as evidenced by a non-Chinese statue) to bolster his argument.
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Most programs would have left it at that, and for that matter, most authors like Menzies would have consented only to reveal their side of the argument rather than derive into a scholarly debate. However, the third fraction of the program allows all of Menzie’s critics to launch up broadsides on his theory, and they blast away with sizable vigor. I have to give Menzies credit for consenting to sit down on camera and admit that he has no evidence to rebut a number of his critics’ arguments. Sometimes he admits, with tremendous discomfort, that he simply doesn’t know enough about a particular field to be able to discuss it. Not everybody would be willing to do that. He tenaciously defends his contentions, but at least does not dismiss the criticism out of hand.
Meanwhile, Menzies’ critics have a field day with him, and one is left with the definite impression, when all is said and done, that even though Zheng’s rapidly probably could have made it to the Americas (and maybe around the world) there simply is nothing in historical represent to suggest that this ever happened, and there really isn’t powerful circumstantial evidence to aid Menzies’ claim either. Of course, this assumes that the viewer has stuck it out through all of the scholarly thrusts & parries. All in all, I was gay to examine a production that wasn’t hopelessly slanted one plot or the other. Well done.
Well, I watched it on PBS. Very splendid narrative with missing links to be investigated in the future. Sadly the recede logs of the fleets went missing (burned), otherwise this video would be more intelligent. We knew that Zheng He went as far as Africa and according to a scheme some Chinese junk passed the southern tip of Africa and moved on to the Atlantic. The book author has the zeal for naval history and thanks to his investigation, we salvage to know more about what happened some six hundred years ago. The first hour of this video is about history, retracing the ports Zheng He had visted; the second hour is Q and A between the filmmaker and book author Gavin Menzies. I enjoyed viewing it and would like to behold further update on the investigation.
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