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A 秋葵视频 history professor has uncovered centuries-old Chinese trade routes that have been hidden for nearly 400 years. The discovery was made by Robert Batchelor, Ph.D., while researching maps in Oxford University鈥檚 Bodleian Library. Batchelor is discussing his discovery at a meeting of researchers being held today at Oxford. 鈥淟ike many researchers, I approached China in this period from the perspective of the Ming Empire, which because of The Forbidden City and The Great Wall is usually remembered for closure rather than openness,鈥� explained Batchelor. 鈥淏ut when I moved to Georgia and began learning about the Savannah Port, it piqued my interest in the Chinese shipping trade of that era. I was studying a nearly 400-year-old map in the Bodleian Library when I discovered it was actually a map of Chinese trade routes. The Bodleian Library knew they had the map, but no modern scholars ever made the connection that the map actually documented Chinese trade routes.鈥� While studying the long neglected early 17th-century Chinese manuscript map, Batchelor discovered a finely drawn network of shipping routes.聽聽Unlike many Chinese maps that show only the empire itself, this map depicts the whole of East Asia and most importantly the trading routes used to reach Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Southeast Asia. It also shows how such navigation worked, and restoration has revealed that the routes on the map were drawn before the coasts.聽聽Batchelor believes the map was most likely commissioned by a Chinese or perhaps Moslem merchant family-lineage group from Quanzhou, Fujian, who had strong connections in Southeast Asia. 鈥淭he map is a unique artifact that tells the story of East Asian commerce as open, dynamic and driven by coastal merchant networks with aspirations to trade as far away as the Persian Gulf,鈥� said Batchelor. The map, known as the Selden Map of China, was donated to the Bodleian in 1659 by English legal philosopher John Selden. 鈥淧rofessor Batchelor鈥檚 discovery is another example of 秋葵视频鈥檚 research reaching far beyond our borders and impacting people around the world,鈥� said College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dean Mike Smith. 鈥淭here is no question that international scholars and researchers will study this map to unlock secrets lost to time and to better understand the impact and implications of international trade centuries ago.鈥� While the map will prove invaluable to researchers who want to study Chinese shipping and trade history, Batchelor thinks the discovery also paves the way for a modern dialogue about China鈥檚 relationship with the U.S. and other countries. 鈥淢any people don鈥檛 realize that South Georgia鈥檚 relationship with China goes back to at least the 1760s when Henry Yonge planted the first soybean crop in North America in Savannah with seeds brought from China.聽聽It鈥檚 important to think like early Americans and merchant Chinese –reaching out to build relationships rather than walls,鈥� said Batchelor.