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It is a known fact that the Chinese believed the Earth was flat and the Jesuits had a hard time convincing them that it was spherical. And this was two centuries after Zheng He's suppossed voyages. The Chinese also brag about having many milleniums or recorded history, and yet no evidence has been provided so far as far as Chinese documents are concerned.
The oldest examples of Chinese literature come from the beginnings of the Zhou Dynasty, circa 1,000bce. The Chinese script developed from this:

Oracle bone script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Shang Dynasty, which preceeded the Zhou Dynasty, is semi-legendary.

Hm, Jesuits in China circa the 12th/13th century? Would that've been due to the communications between Pope Gregory X and Kublai Khan?