"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.

Revising History
by Charlotte Rees

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.