{"id":43038,"date":"2026-04-09T17:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43038"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:56:51","slug":"china-always-a-connector-unlike-europes-colonisers-scholar-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43038","title":{"rendered":"China always a connector, unlike Europe\u2019s colonisers, scholar says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/04\/09\/7842b6fb-505d-4758-b5b3-97aad06d4d20_d0c993d7.jpg?itok=2kiEyOx2&amp;v=1775726105\" \/><br \/>Scholar and author Sheng-Wei Wang discusses how studying an ancient Chinese world map led her to conclude China explored and mapped the world before the European Age of Discovery and how the legacy of colonialism and a Eurocentric record of global history continue to affect power dynamics today.<br \/>\nSCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in the Open Questions series.<br \/>\nWhat first made you suspect that it was Chinese explorers and not Europeans who launched the true Age of Discovery?<br \/>\nThe&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3349523\/china-always-connector-unlike-europes-colonisers-scholar-says?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholar and author Sheng-Wei Wang discusses how studying an ancient Chinese world map led her to conclude China explored and mapped the world before the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[832,20078,20076,20077,1782],"class_list":["post-43038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-china","tag-colonisers","tag-connector","tag-europes","tag-scholar","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}