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    Zheng He (simplified Chinese: 郑和; traditional Chinese: 鄭和; pinyin: Zhènghé; Wade–Giles: Chêng-ho; 1371–1433 or 1435) was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat...
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    and islands in and around the South China Sea and Indian Ocean. Admiral Zheng He was commissioned to command the fleet for the expeditions. Six of the voyages...
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    utmost zeal. The school of thought he used was Al-Shafi‘i with similar customs to those he had seen in India. Zheng He is credited to have settled Chinese...
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    Colophon had alluded to the phenomenon. In 15th-century Ming China, Admiral Zheng He and his associates composed the Liujiagang and Changle inscriptions, the...
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    CMA CGM Zheng He is an Explorer class containership built for CMA CGM. It is among the world's largest containerships, at 16,020 TEU. The ship was built...
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  • Zheng He (Chinese: 郑和; born November 1958) is a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army who served as president of PLA National Defense University...
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    Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho)'s Seven Wells lie in the foot of the Bukit China, beside the Poh San Teng Temple. These wells were dug by Admiral Zheng He's expedition...
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  • individuals so named Zheng He (1371–1433), Chinese admiral He (和) and He (合), collectively known as 和合二仙 (He-He er xian, "Two immortals He"), two Taoist immortals...
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    Church 2005, pp. 1–4, 38. "Zheng He xia Xiyang de chuan” 鄭和下西洋的船, Dongfang zazhi 東方雜誌 43 (1947) 1, pp. 47-51, reprinted in Zheng He yanjiu ziliao huibian 鄭和研究資料匯編...
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    admiral Zheng He, who led seven voyages during the early 15th-century Ming dynasty. The size of the treasure ships, the largest ships in Zheng He's fleet...
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  • that is currently under development. Tianwen-2 was originally known as ZhengHe. Tianwen-2 is scheduled to be launched on a Long March 3B rocket in May...
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  • for several years. His fleet was defeated by the Ming dynasty Admiral Zheng He at the Battle of Palembang (1407). Chen was captured and sent to Chinese...
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    dynasty. Other attractions include the Zheng He Culture Park, with the grave of the Ming dynasty navigator Zheng He, and further developments are planned...
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    in Kaifeng, dating to 1820. Zheng He, mariner and explorer Fei Xin, Zheng He's translator Ma Huan, a companion of Zheng He Generals from the Qing era:...
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    grids were produced. During the 15th century, the Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He went on a series of voyages to the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, and beyond...
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  • Kenyan villages; however, these were believed to have been brought over by Zheng He during his 15th century ocean voyages. On Lamu Island off the Kenyan coast...
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    modern Chinese sources as Zheng He's Navigation Map (traditional Chinese: 鄭和航海圖; simplified Chinese: 郑和航海图; pinyin: Zhèng hánghǎi tú), is a set of navigation...
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    Zheng Yi Sao (born Shi Yang; 1775–1844), also known as Shi Xianggu, Shek Yeung and Ching Shih, was a Chinese pirate leader active in the South China Sea...
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    was visited in 1407 CE by Zheng He, a Chinese Muslim eunuch admiral from Yunnan who leading his second Ming imperial voyage. He bestowed gifts upon the...
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  • Zheng He Xia Xiyang is a 2009 Chinese television series based on the voyages of Zheng He, the explorer who led seven expeditions to Southeast Asia, South...
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  • He was best known for his controversial book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, in which he asserts that the fleets of Chinese Admiral Zheng He...
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    appointments. He rewarded his eunuch supporters and employed them as a counterweight against the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats. One eunuch, Zheng He, led seven...
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    my two children, but it was not so. Only my daughter was given to me." Zheng He, a 14th and 15th century Chinese explorer, is credited to have settled...
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    and undertook preparations to do so. On February 24, 1425, he appointed Admiral Zheng He as the defender of Nanjing and ordered him to continue his command...
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    Zheng (simplified Chinese: 郑; traditional Chinese: 鄭; pinyin: Zhèng; Wade–Giles: Cheng4, [ʈʂə́ŋ] ) is a Chinese surname. It is the 7th name on the Hundred...
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    are mainly owed to the Ming admiral Zheng He's reports during his visit to Majapahit between 1405 and 1432. Zheng He's translator Ma Huan wrote a detailed...
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    between Malacca and China. Two years later, Admiral Zheng He made his first of six visits to Malacca. Zheng He called at Malacca and brought Parameswara with...
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    local king Vira Alakesvara of Gampola. Zheng He captured King Vira Alakesvara and later released him. Zheng He erected the Galle Trilingual Inscription...
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    Lakandula in northern Tundun (now Tondo, Manila.) The Chinese Muslim mariner Zheng He is credited with founding several Chinese Muslim communities in Mandaue...
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    Xuande Emperor in the Ming dynasty. He is best known as the commander of one of the detached squadrons of Zheng He's fleet during the Seventh Voyage of...
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