Freedom:
City of Yunnan
Professorship:
Yunnan University
Commemorative and memorial lectures:
Captain Pack Memorial Lecture
Ferens Distinguished Lecture
R. Douglas Wright Memorial lecture
Phoenix Television 15th Anniversary – The Great Hall of the People, Beijing
Speeches at Maritime Museums:
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Sydney
Newport News
Magellanes
Instituto do Oriente
Keynote Speeches at conferences on Zheng He:
Kunming
Nanjing
Singapore
American Association of Historians
Committee of 100
Library of Congress, Washington DC
International Geographers convention Saint Dié des Vosges.
Conference on “People of the sea” Le Mans, France.
Trimble conference, Beijing, 2009
Midwestern Epigraphic Society Annual Conference 2011
Sharjah International Book Fair 2010
Invitations to speak at Universities and schools:
Stamford
Harvard
Wittenburg
Ohio
Berkeley
Florida
Washington DC
Oxford
Durham
Sussex
Hull
Newcastle
Beijing
Yunnan
Nanjing
Hong Kong
Lisbon
Singapore
Salamanca
Kuala Lumpur
Nottingham
La Trobe
Melbourne
SOAS
City of London School for Girls
Eton College
Duke University – CAIC 2004
London School of Economics
Oxford University – Centre for Islamic Studies
Harrow International School, Beijing
Invitations to speak at Institutions:
Royal Geographical Society, London
Royal Geographical Society, Hong Kong
Royal Geographical Society, Scotland
Institution of Navigation
Institute of Civil Engineers
Talks to clubs:
Army and Navy
Naval and Military
Friends of Submarine Museum
Foreign Press Club
Henley Offshore Group
An Exhibition on 1421:
Singapore (Singapore Tourism Board / Pico Art International) June – Sept 2005
20, 000 square ft on Marina Promenade. The exhibition is currently in Malacca.
“1421” Book sales and TV documentaries:
Published in 104 countries; Television documentaries by PBS / Pearson; Tokyo Broadcasting System; ABC Australia; Phoenix (Mandarin); NHK (Japanese); CNN; Discovery Channel (English)
“1434” has been published in UK, USA, Spain, Poland, China, Taiwan, Holland and Japan
“1421” and “1434” are taught in schools and universities in the U.S.A., Canada, UK, China, Denmark, and Ireland.