Where did the Chinese come before they reached China in the distant past?

Question

I can't remember where I read this, but I saw a reference that it is believed they came from Akkadia.
Is there any evidence they came from there or some place else in the distant past?

Answer 1

http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/2000/0117/cover.chineseroots.html
"The Chinese Human Genome Diversity Project, a collaboration among 12 researchers from seven institutions, scrutinized DNA samples from 28 of China's 56 ethnic groups and then compared the samples with genetic material from other Asian and non-Asian groups. Their verdict: Chinese--like the rest of humanity--evolved in Africa. They migrated eastward along the Indian Ocean and made their way to China via Southeast Asia. "

Answer 2

Akkadia-no never heard that. There are linguistically elements of the language which suggest Assyrian roots. Moreover, I read a book once where the pictographs were broken down into bible story's. Example: The Chinese word for boat was made from the number 8, vessel or container, and mouth=person: as in 8 mouths to feed.=story of Noah's arch.

Snake is made up of Garden, deceive, fruit. etc I think.
I would have to read the book again, I will try to find the name, and post it. This to could be seen as a link to the near east.
PS show me historic facts that link man to Africa-its bunk. Pre-history =myth. pre-historic bunk. There is historic evidence pointing to both the near east which includes Egypt (Africa) and Central Asia. the Lucy bones are not even human and were found in a 10 mile radius suggesting they don't even belong to the same primate. Africa for this reason is bunk. That doesn't mean its not Africa just not for that apocryphal reason.
PS question your teachers and professor their education is 20 to 35 years out dated at the time they receive their degrees, just the nature of the beast.

Answer 3

this might answer your question

"Pending the discovery of decisive evidence, the following provisional conclusion has much to recommend it - namely, that the ancestors of the Chinese people came from the west, from Akkadia or Elam (Mesopotamia or Modern Iran), or from Khotan, or (more probably) from Akkadia or Elam via Khotan, as one nomad or pastoral tribe or group of nomad or pastoral tribes, or as successive waves of immigrants, reached what is now China Proper at its north-west corner, settled round the elbow of the Yellow River, spread north-eastward, eastward and southward, conquering, absorbing, or pushing before them the aborigines into what is now South and South-west China. These aboriginal races, who represent a wave or waves of neolithic immigrants from Western Asia earlier than the relatively high-headed immigrants into North China (who arrived about the twenty-fifth or twenty-fourth century B.C.), and who have left so deep an impress on the Japanese, mixed and intermarried with the Chinese in the south, eventually producing the pronounced differences, in physical, mental, and emotional traits, in sentiments, ideas, languages, processes, and products, from the Northern Chinese which are so conspicuous at the present day"

from: http://www.logon.org/english/s/b7_8.html

Answer 4

There have been people living on the Yellow River for thousands of years- since pre-history.

Answer 5

Africa. Just like everyone else!