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JOHN STANMEYER/VII FOR TIME
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Zheng He was a revered figure -- inside China as well as outside the
country. The admiral sailed through Melaka, Java and Sumatra on his epic
journeys through Southeast Asia and is now immortalized in memory and monument
along the way
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