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TIME retraces Admiral Zheng He's route and finds a nation less sure about its global role
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Before Zheng he and his crew took off, the men would visit the Jinghai
Temple in Taicang to pray to the Taoist goddess known as Tianfei for protection
at sea. Spiritually fortified, they boarded their ships, which would head down
the Liu Creek to the Yangtze River and eventually into the open seas
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CHINA
Photographer Fritz Hoffmann finds a country on the move
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