Zheng He's maritime voyages (1405-1433) and China's relations with the Indian Ocean world
Subtitle: a multilingual bibliography
By: edited and annotated by Ying Liu, Zhongping Chen, Gregory Blue
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9789004280168; 9789004281042
Subjects: Bibliography; Travel; Naval History; History; Relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

>This bibliography collects publications in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai languages, a total of thirteen languages.
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>For publications in roman-alphabet languages, such as English, French, German, Indonesian, Malay, Portuguese, and Spanish, titles are listed in the original languages, and English translations are provided when necessary.
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>For publications in the Chinese and Japanese languages, we have translated the titles and transliterated the names of authors and editors as well as the publisher names and other information. The original scripts are kept in the citations to help users to identify and search for the sources. Original translations or transliterations of Chinese and Japanese journal titles are kept and presented in round brackets. Because italicizing Chinese and Japanese scripts can negatively affect readability, original book and journal titles in these scripts are not italicized as per MLA style. Instead we have italicized the English translations of these titles inside round brackets.
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>For publications in other non-roman-alphabet languages such as Arabic, Russian and Thai, the titles are romanized but the original scripts are not given. English translations of the titles and of necessary content notes are, however, provided.

- excerpt from "Explanatory Notes"