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Some Sources for the Zheng He Voyages
A. Original Sources
1. The original Chinese references to the Zheng He voyages are contained within the Ming shi-lu (or veritable Records of the Ming). These have been made available in English translation by Geoff Wade at the following site:
http://www.epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/person/4199
2. Other works which contain contemporary accounts of the voyages include:
a. Ying-yai Sheng-lan, The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores 1433 by Ma Huan, translated by J.V.G. Mills, with foreword and preface, Hakluyt Society, London 1970; reprinted by the White Lotus Press, Bangkok 1997.
b. FEI, Hsin. Hsing-ch'a sheng-lan, the overall survey of the Star Raft, translated by J.V.G.Mills, revised, edited and annotated by Roderich Ptak. [Series: South China and maritime Asia 4]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1996, ISBN 3-447-03798-9.
B. Academic Studies
1. An Overview of the Zheng He Sexcentenary written by Bruce Doar for the Chinese Heritage Newsletter under the Chinese Heritage Project, Australian National University
http://www.chinaheritagenewsletter.org/articles.php?searchterm=002_zhenghe.inc&issue=002
2. Michael Bosworth on “The Rise and Fall of 15th-century Chinese Sea Power”
http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/china.htm
3. Louise Levathes’ work When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne 1405 – 1433 (Oxford University Press, 1997) is a popular yet reasonably accurate account of the voyages. An introductory section of the work is presented here:
http://www.ripon.edu/academics/global/Levathes.html
4. A revisionist view of the Zheng He voyages by Geoff Wade, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore is presented as an online working paper here:
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps04_031.pdf
5. Details of the trilingual stele erected in Sri Lanka by Zheng He
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/galle/trilingual.html
6. The Zheng He exhibition held at the National Library of Singapore in 2005:
http://exhibitions.nlb.gov.sg/zhenghe/
7. Johannes Widodo’s paper “Admiral Zheng He and Pre-Colonial Coastal Urban Development in Southeast Asia”.
http://www.geocities.com/johannes_widodo/zhenghe.htm
8. An Overview of European-language Studies of the Pre-Modean East Asian Maritime Realm can be found here:
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps03_016.pdf
9. For more general information on Maritime Asia, the following website is useful:
http://www.maritimeasia.ws/
C. Popular Media representations
1. Time Magazine was one of the earliest Western media to latch on to the Zheng He magic and ran a major story on the voyages in a 2001 issue
http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/journey2001/intro.html
2. Nicholas Kristof continued this with a piece in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m3/kristof.html
3. National Geographic provide an online introduction to their 2005 issue on the Zheng He voyages:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0507/feature2/
4. Andreas Lorenz, in his Der Spiegel article, examines the recent resurgence in interest in Zheng He:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,372474,00.html
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