THE ISLAND of SEVEN CITIES
Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
“If it is
true, the find would rank among the greatest archeological
discoveries of all time, [and] turn much of modern history
upside down.” National Post
Using aerial and site photographs, maps and drawings, and
his own expertise as an architect, Chiasson re-creates how
he pieced together the clues to one of the world’s great mysteries: a large Chinese colony existed and thrived
on Canadian shores well before the European Age of Discovery. He addresses how
the ruins had been previously overlooked or misunderstood, and how the colony
was abandoned and forgotten, in China and in the New World. And he discovers
the traces the colony left in the storytelling and culture of the Mi’kmaq,
whose written language, clothing, technical knowledge, religious beliefs, and
legends, he argues, expose deep cultural ties to China. |
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