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Fusang

Or, The discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century
By:Charles G. Leland
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9781138580572
eText ISBN:9780429874321
Edition:1
Copyright:1875
Format:Reflowable

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This book, first published in 1875 and reissued in 1973, analyses the limited evidence from the works of early Chinese historians that explorers from China had discovered a country they called Fusang – possibly western America, and in all probability Mexico. The original document on which Chinese historians based their accounts of Fusang was the report of a Buddhist monk called Hoei-shin, who, in the year 499 AD, returned from a long journey to the east.

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