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In high school all the freshmen had to do a project called The Top Thousand People of the Last Millennium. We had to draw a slip of paper, and on it was the name of a potential candidate for this list. Our job for the entire rest of the year was to research this person and find out what they did to impact the world and present an argument that they should or should not be on this hypothetical list. When I drew my slip, I got Zheng He. I was not pleased. Why couldnt I have gotten someone famous and interesting, like Hitler or Isaac Newton instead of this no-name Chinese guy that my Chinese friends themselves hadnt heard of? Well, by the end of the year I totally changed my mind. Zheng He was an AWESOME person to have because his voyages spread Chinese culture all over the world, way before the Europeans had any inclination to go seaward at all!Louise Levathes books popped up in many of the bibliographies of the books and papers that I read, but at the time my librarys copy wasnt available, so I never got to read it in time for my project. Well, I was looking up books for one of my reading challenges in which I had to read something about seafaring, and I remembered the story of Zheng Hes travels and I finally got the book in my hands.Dont get me wrong, I loved Zheng He and Levathes detailed descriptions of what Chinese boats looked like at the time, but I kept putting the book down, mainly because of the Chinese dynastic histories described in the book. I understand why that was in there--Zheng Hes motivation to go to sea and his success at funding the voyages was dependent on who was in power--but I just could not dredge up the care for it. On the other hand, whenever Levathes described the battles He had to fight and the diplomatic maneuvers he employed to get foreign royalty to trade with the Chinese, I was riveted.Overall, its definitely worth a read. Hes contribution to world trade happened decades before deGama, Columbus, and the others went exploring Africa and the Americas, and its fascinating how after the last of Hes voyages, the Chinese stopped trading and went through a long period of isolation that, well, seems to still be happening in certain areas of life. Imagine, if the Chinese had only built on Hes trade and sea-faring skills, I might be writing this review in Chinese right now.
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