evidence: This narrative about Zengmu Ansha as China’s "southernmost point" is not some new propaganda from the CCP. China’s first official South China Sea map with interrupted lines was published in 1948 (though drawn in 1947 for internal purposes) by the Republic of China’s (ROC) Kuomintang (KMT) government. There are also documents reporting that a map created by cartographer Bai Meichu in 1936 used solid lines to encircle the Paracel Islands, the Macclesfield Bank, and the Spratly Islands. This 1936 map marked Zengmu Ansha in the Spratly Islands as China’s southernmost boundary in the South China Sea. Since the 1940s, generations of Chinese have learned from their geography textbooks that Zengmu Ansha is the southernmost point of China’s territory. Different generations of Chinese have also conducted a similar exercise in their middle school geography classes: the students use a ruler to measure the distance from the northernmost point of China (Mohe, near the Amur River, at the latitude of 53° 29′ north) to Zengmu Ansha (at the latitude of 4° 15′ north) and then feel very proud of their country’s vast territory.