Doomed Envoy (Shanghai Star)

[Neutral Singh]

BORN to a famed family in what is today Yunnan Province in Southwest China in 1371, Zheng He was originally surnamed Ma. His family was Muslim and his father and grandfather once travelled on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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