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Fedi hive mind, I'm writing a story. The MC investigates a Luo folk song (re: oral history, Uganda/South Sudan) that has clues saying 500 yrs ago an astronomer from China visited and documented Luo space travel technologies (portals to the stars). This knowledge is now lost and my MC has to unravel the clues, but what clues could point to China without usung racist stereotypes? Perhaps a word, a name, a description, something?
Context in the next toot.
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I'm thinking the Chinese astronomer was part of the travellers during China's age of exploration, which saw giraffes ending up in China, and there are some clues here, but they are generic.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/peculiar-story-giraffes-medieval-china-180963737/
@skinnylatte you quickly come to mind, and hoping you can give me something to work with. I'm looking at the wikipedia page of Chinese astronomy, but perhaps you'd know what an astronomer was called in China, circa 1400s, and would they be in a university/place somewhere? Or something I could read to research this?
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