The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New...
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Author: Paul Chiasson
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The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America by Chiasson, Paul

The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

€39,73

The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

€39,73
Author: Paul Chiasson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus.

In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. One of the oldest points of exploration and settlement in the Americas, with a written history dating back to the first days of European discovery, Cape Breton is littered with remnants of old settlements. But that day Chiasson found a road that was unique. Well made and consistently wide, and at one time clearly bordered with stone walls, the road had been a major undertaking. But he could find no record of it. In the two years of detective work that followed, Chiasson systematically surveyed the history of Europeans in North America and came to a stunning conclusion: the ruins he had stumbled upon - an entire townsite on a mountaintop---did not belong to the Portuguese, the French, the English, or the Scots. And they predated John Cabot's 1497 discovery of the island.

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.

A gripping account of an earth-shaking discovery, The Island of Seven Cities will change the way we think about our world.

Author: Paul Chiasson
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.31h x 5.48w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780312362058

About the Author

PAUL CHIASSON, a Yale-educated architect with a specialty in the history and theory of religious architechture has taught at Yale, the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto.




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