作者簡介

Li Xinfeng, deputy director, researcher, and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of West-Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), has published more than 20 academic papers and works such as China in Africa (Chinese and English version) and Zheng He and Africa. As a former chief reporter of People’s Daily in South Africa, he left his footprint all over the African continent. He has earned more than ten national awards, including China News Award (2006 & 2017), the first prize of the CASS Award for the Excellence in Countermeasure Studies (2012 &2016) and China-Africa Joint Exchange Program Research Award (2013 & 2016).

Zheng Yijun, researcher at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASS), once worked as advisor of the team celebrating the 600th anniversary of Zheng He’s voyages to the Western Ocean. He published, edited, and co-authored 28 treatises and monographs and published more than 50 academic papers. Zheng He’s Voyages to the Western Ocean (Revised Edition) and Zheng He’s Biography are his well-known works. In addition, he co-authored Collected Materials on Zheng He’s Voyages to the Western Ocean with his father, Professor Zheng Hesheng, and won the second prize of the first National Award for Collation of Ancient Books in 1992.