Chang Ho, also known as Cheng He and Zheng He, is having a moment of notoriety locally. His reputation has been given a major boost
by a new book by amateur historian Gavin Menzies.
http://www.visitsingapore-zhenghe.com/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sultan/explorers2.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060537639/104-5174740-6269502?v=glance
Chinese junks of the Ming Dynasty once visited Africa.
Singaporeans, who are the denizens of a kind of China on
the equator, have to wonder if the Mings stopped there.
In the 1400s, giant Chinese junks could have voyaged
most anywhere on the high seas, and nobody would
have noticed or cared. Even the Chinese themselves
swiftly forgot what the Chinese navies had been up to.
