Presented by Charlotte Harris Rees
Monday, October 2, 2017
Reception: 6:00pm – Presentation: 7:00pm
The Channel Islands Maritime Museum is gratified and honored to offer an evening with Charlotte Harris Rees, a renowned author and scholar of Chinese Discovery and Colonization of Ancient America.
Ms. Rees is a Senior Researcher and a graduate of Columbia International University. She has appeared on television and NPR in the United States and Canada, and in numerous news articles around the world. She has spoken about her family’s map collection and the early arrival of Chinese to America at the Library of Congress, the National Library of China, Stanford University, Tsinghua University (China’s Harvard), Switzerland, the University of Maryland, City U of NY, the China Institute (NYC), Portland (Oregon) State University, the University of London, Royal Geographical Societies in London and Hong Kong, Nanjing University, and Simon Fraser University (Canada). Her books are listed by World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies.This is a rare opportunity to meet and share Ms. Rees’ extensive knowledge and years of research in this field of study.