Follow the adventures of the great Chinese explorer Zheng He (1371-1433) during the renowned Ming Dynasty in this illustrated bilingual book. The young Zheng He dreamed of foreign lands, his imagination awakened by a porcelain vase his grandfather and father brought home from overseas. It became his goal to find this stunning cobalt colour but the road to fulfilling this dream was not a straight one
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biography
Content: Bi/multilingual, STEM
Settings: Asia, China, Eastern Asia
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Boy/Man
Race/Culture: Asian/Pacific Islander/Asian American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main