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The eleven papers included in this book mainly come from the Chinese-English bilingual international conference held at the University of Victoria in Canada in 2014. The theme is "Zheng He's voyages to the West and the relationship between China and the Indian Ocean world since ancient times." Participants of this conference include more than 50 scholars from Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia. It is the largest Zheng He research conference held outside Asia. Zheng He's seven voyages to the West in the early Ming Dynasty are well-known major historical events in the field of Chinese history research. However, whether in the field of traditional world history or the emerging global history, this unprecedented feat in the history of human navigation has not received due attention. Not only do mainstream Western scholars lack understanding of Zheng He's voyages to the West, but the theoretical methods they used are also difficult to fully explain this non-Western historical event. The main purpose of this book is to break through this academic dilemma and advocate a multicultural global history through the study of Zheng He from multiple perspectives.