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This Buddhist sculpture probably won’t ‘rewrite history’ – Western Australia already has a rich Chinese past

  • Written by: Yu Tao, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, The University of Western Australia
This Buddhist sculpture probably won’t ‘rewrite history’ – Western Australia already has a rich Chinese pastState Library of Western Australia

Does the discovery of a Ming Dynasty Buddha sculpture found near Shark Bay in remote Western Australia “rewrite history” and suggest the Chinese first visited Australia 600 years ago?

Map of WAShark Bay is 800km from Perth.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Probably not. The fleets of Ming admiral Zheng He are said to...

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