Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World

Zheng He's Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China's Relations with the Indian Ocean World

Edited and annotated by Ying Liu, University of Victoria, 

Zhongping Chen, University of Victoria, 

Gregory Blue, University of Victoria

Volume Editor: 

Ying Liu
Zhongping Chen
Gregory Blue

Subject: 

Asian Studies›China

Asian Studies›South East Asia

Asian Studies›Comparative Studies

History›Chinese History

History›Medieval History

ISBN13: 

9789004280168

Expected Date: 

August 2014

Copyright Year: 

2014

Format: 

Hardback

Publication Type: 

Reference Work

Pages, Illustr.: 

xxvi, 200 pp.

Imprint: 

BRILL

Language: 

English

Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography provides a multidisciplinary guide to publications on this great navigator’s activities and their impact on Chinese and world history. Admiral Zheng He commanded the fifteenth-century world’s largest fleet. In the course of seven voyages made between 1405 and 1433, his massive ships visited over thirty present-day countries in Asia and Africa. Those voyages reflected and reinforced the development of complex networks of trade, migration, cultural exchange, and political interactions between China and the Indian Ocean world.
This bibliography lists sources in thirteen languages, including both scholarly studies and popular works like Gavin Menzies’s controversial bestsellers claiming the Chinese sailed around the world before Columbus. Relevant translations, transliterations and annotations are provided to aid the reader.