在马六甲寻访郑和的足迹

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黄安伟, 在马六甲寻访郑和的足迹. 纽约时报中文网, Jan 7, 2015
cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20151207/c07melaka/

, which is translated from

Edward Wong, Celebrating the Legacy of a Chinese Explorer. New York Times, Dec 20, 2014.

Note:
(a)"One of those tropical bases [of ZHENG He] was here in Malacca, now a modest town of preserved pink Portuguese colonial buildings * * * Here, sailors from Zheng He’s fleets built homes and storehouses on the Straits of Malacca."
(i) Malacca is a state of Malaysia, whose capital is Malacca City.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacca
(Malay: Melaka; section 1.1 Malacca Sultanate [1400-1511])
(ii) Dutch Square, Melaka Heritage. undated
www.asiarediscovery.com/malaysia ... tower-christ-church
("Melaka (also written as 'Malacca' previously) * * * Dutch Square is also called Red Square as this area is surrounded by all the red or more precisely light maroon painted buildings. They were formerly the center of Dutch administration. * * * The buildings in Dutch Square were made of brick but during British administration, they were painted with salmon red to ease maintainability. The state government somehow has darken the shade to be light maroon as what we see today. * * * Stadthuys is the largest structure of them all. In old Dutch spelling, 'Stadthuys' is literally translated as 'town hall' and pronounced as 'stat-highs'. It was built between 1641 and 1660 as the residence for Dutch Governor and his deputy. * * * Next to Stadthuys is Christ Church. Christ Church was built in 1753 by Dutch is the oldest Protestant church in Malaysia”)
(iii) storehouse (n): "a building for storing goods (as provisions): MAGAZINE, WAREHOUSE"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/storehouse

(b) "his name [is] rendered as Cheng Ho in Malaysia. * * * the real centerpiece of the Zheng He revival is a sprawling two-story red building called the Cheng Ho Cultural Museum"

Cheng Ho Cultural Museum  郑和文化馆
www.chengho.org/museum/web/history.html

(c) "'Cheng Ho’s voyages contributed a lot to the Malacca Empire,' said the museum’s founder, TAN Ta Sen 陈 达生 [PhD, Univ of Indonesia], a scholar and entrepreneur in Singapore who is president of the International Zheng He Society. 'Without the support of the Ming, Malacca’s history would have been rewritten.'"
(i) International Zheng He Society  国际郑和学会
www.chengho.org
(The homepage implies, in the left column, that the Malacca-based 郑和文化馆 is part of the Society; headquartered in Singapore)
(ii) simplified Chinese characters
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters
(section 1.2 Singapore and Malaysia)
(iii) Zheng He
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He
(1371-1433 or 1435; seven voyages: 1405-1433)

(d) "A Chinese historian, Zheng Yijun, at the Institute of Oceanology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences * * * An account by Ma Huan, an Arabic-language translator who accompanied Zheng He on three expeditions * * * Zhuang Guotu, a history professor at Xiamen University"

NYT translation: 中国科学院海洋研究所的历史学家郑一钧 * * * 曾陪同郑和三次下西洋的马欢是名阿拉伯语翻译 * * * 厦门大学历史学教授庄国土
(e) "The museum officially opened in 2005, timed to the 600th anniversary of the start of Zheng He’s seven voyages to the Indian Ocean, which took place from 1405 to 1433. Zheng He died at age 62 as he returned home on the last of those. Shipmates wrapped his body in a white shroud and flung it into the ocean. * * * no one doubts his [Zheng He's] presence in Malacca, which he visited at least five times. 'He stayed in this building here,' said David Khor, a museum guide. 'He built up Malacca. Before, it was small and backward.'”

NYT translation for David Khor: 戴维·许 (Pronounced the same as English noun "core," Khor" is Hoklo, or Min-nan 闽南 pronunciation.)
(f) "More important, Zheng He and the Yongle Emperor, the ruler of China at the time, helped the native people of Malacca stand up to the kingdom of Thailand[, said Mr Tan, the museum founder]. 'The tribal chief was recognized by the Yongle Emperor as the ruler of his kingdom,' said Mr Zheng 郑一钧, the Chinese historian. 'With that recognition, the Thai didn’t dare invade Malacca anymore. Zheng He is remembered by the people of Malacca as the one who helped them gain independence.'”

Ayutthaya Kingdom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayutthaya_Kingdom
(1351-1767; table--first capital: Ayutthaya (1351-1463); section 1.2 Conquests and expansion: last paragraph)
(g) "'They were military missions with strategic aims,' wrote Geoffrey Wade, a scholar at the National University of Singapore, in a 2004 paper published by the university’s Asia Research Institute. Mr Wade wrote that the stockade built by Zheng He in Malacca was proof of the military nature of the expeditions."
(i) stockade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockade
(ii) stockade (n; etymology)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stockade