In Xu's view, the first complex culture in Mesoamerica may have come into existence with the help of a group of Chinese who fled across the seas as refugees at the end of the Shang dynasty.
許輝認為，當年中美洲的第一個燦爛的古文明，有可能是殷商末年一批渡海逃難的中國人協助建立起來的。