"New Proofs from The Experts: Native Americans are the Descendants of
Shang Dynasty Chinese"

Read an article that appeared in the Henan Province Commercial News, China on September 3, 2009 saying that Henan province historians believe that the Chinese are ancestors to native Americans and that they arrived in America by 1100 B.C.

The original Chinese version of the article can be read Here.

An English translation of the article and Charlotte's rebuttal to the counterpoints can be read Here.

***RELEASED JUNE 2008 - SECRET MAPS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD***

 This book cover was designed from photos of an actual map and book cover from the
Dr. Hendon Harris Map Collection. Click the cover for a higher resolution picture.

Secret Maps of the Ancient World is written in everyday language, as if from an investigative reporter, and presents many recent academic studies supporting early dates of Chinese arrival to America. The book highlights the Harris Map Collection.

Not fiction like the DaVinci Code, this is a true situation where secrets have been hidden in plain sight in famous museums.

This website www.AsiaticFathers.com continues to get hits around the clock daily. Please mention us to your friends.

Click here for an excerpt from Secret Maps of the Ancient World!

Reviews of Secret Maps of the Ancient World

"Secret Maps of the Ancient World is a spell-binding book which presents a compelling case for ancient Chinese voyagers coming to the Americas.  Reading the book, I felt like I had fallen into the archives for the movie, National Treasure -- only this time, it's real!!"

Diana Waring, Author of History curriculum and international speaker

 

"This scholarly and yet easy to read book is a major contribution to the early history of the Americas and the relations to China and other parts of Asia. There is much evidence that Chinese were in America hundreds if not thousands of years before Columbus. Based on the rare Asian maps collection of her late father, Dr. Hendon M. Harris, the author has painstakingly researched, including using the resources of the Library of Congress, to present her findings that Chinese had indeed traveled by sea to the Americas since 2000 BC."

Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, Former Chief, Asian Division, Library of Congress (Retired); Dean Emeritus, Ohio University Libraries

 

"Secret Maps of the Ancient World is the definitive reference book on Chinese voyages to America over the past 4000 years. It is a tremendous intellectual achievement. I hope that 10 years from now it will be in every American school. The 1421 team gives our warmest congratulations."

Gavin Menzies, author of New York Times Bestseller 1421 and 1434

 

“Charlotte Harris Rees, true to her distinguished pioneer father Hendon, resumes affronting usually-bypassed primary evidence free of 19^th century dogmas with refreshing skeptical common sense.”

Cyclone Covey, PhD Stanford 1949, Professor Emeritus of History at Wake Forest, author of numerous books including A Critical Reprise of ‘Aboriginal’ American History, 1999- 2005

Showcase Magazine

In the Lifestyle section of the October 2008 Showcase Magazine (p.26) Charlotte Rees has an article that was published titled "Did the Chinese beat Columbus to the New World?" Showcase Magazine has given permission for this article to be made available here on Charlotte's website. If you would like to read this article CLICK HERE.

Revising History

What is the difference between “revisionist history” and “revising history.”
Let me give a personal example.

In 2003 when I started examining the topic of the early arrival of Chinese to America I returned to read my father’s long out of print book The Asiatic Fathers of America. That book was published in Taiwan and indicates “copyright applied for” but does not give a date of publication. I knew that the Library of Congress had a copy because I saw it there in Dr. Hebert’s office on my first visit in 2003. Therefore, I assumed that it must be copyrighted.

Later I visited the U.S. copyright office (on another floor in the same building). They had no copyright on file for this book and initially told me that it would be impossible to get a copyright because the book was published in Taiwan. A few weeks later a miracle happened. Someone in the copyright office remembered my name and called me saying that the laws had changed and that I could get a copyright.

However, I needed the date that the book was first published in order to complete the copyright application. I did not have that so I was told to guess a date. I asked family members and they did not remember exactly, either. Based on what one of my siblings had in her copy I chose 1975, which is now the official date on the copyright.

From time to time I see copies of my father’s original book for sale on the internet. If the price is low I occasionally purchase. Just recently I bought one that is stamped by the Writers Guild of America, “registered December 27, 1973.”

Up until now in everything that I wrote about The Asiatic Fathers of America I put the publication date as 1975. However, with this new information I am “revising” it to 1973. Perhaps now that I have new facts it could be viewed as “revisionist history” if I continued writing that Father’s book was published in 1975. “Revisionist history” is when we adjust actual history to fit our preconceived ideas. “Revising history” is changing what we say based on new concrete evidence.