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Zheng He's Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China's Relations with the Indian Ocean lists selected sources in thirteen languages and reflects global scholarship of Zheng He's seven maritime expeditions and the early-modern communication network linking China and the Indian Ocean World.
About the author
Ying Liu, M.A. (2001) and M.L.I.S. (2004), McGill University, is an Asian Studies Librarian at University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She has written and presented several articles on resources and library collections about Asian Canadian history and Chinese history.
Zhongping Chen, Ph.D. (1998), University of Hawaii, is an associate professor of Chinese history at University of Victoria. He has published dozens of articles and three books. His representative publication is Modern China's Network Revolution (Stanford, 2011).
Gregory Blue, Ph.D. (1989) University of Cambridge, is an associate professor at the University of Victoria where he teaches world and comparative history. His recent publications include the co-authored Death by a Thousand Cuts (Harvard, 2008) on a form of judicial execution in imperial China. His research interests include the history of Sino-Western interactions, intellectual history, social and political theory, comparative colonialism, and the history of science.
