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The China History Podcast

Ep. 92 | Zheng He (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2012

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Laszlo is back after more than two weeks on the lam. This time we look at part 1 of a series featuring the great adventurer/explorer/diplomat Zheng He. Zheng He’s seven voyages to India, Persia, and the east coast of Africa created a big sensation in the early 15th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:54.0

Hi everyone, Las La Montgomery again with another China History Podcast.

0:59.0

Sorry for the long delay since the Shangu episode.

1:03.6

I had to do a Ning Bo run last week

1:06.3

and with everything that piled up on top of that,

1:09.1

I just couldn't get it together fast enough.

1:11.9

Another cause for the delay was simply that today's topic turned

1:14.7

out to be much bigger than I expected. A bit off more than I could chew here. I

1:19.1

thought I was going to be able to encapsulate into 30 to 40 minutes, all seven voyages of Junhe, both of Gavin Menzie's two books and some

1:30.2

interesting commentary from a Ming Dynasty scholar or two.

1:34.4

So this one might go two or three episodes, we'll see.

1:37.6

I'm only going as far as the first voyage today.

1:42.0

For this week's topic, we go back to the CHP 32 Ming Dynasty Part 2 episode and zero in on the seven voyages

1:51.2

of Junhe that took place between 1405 and 1433.

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