This article by Larry Teo usefully summarizes the various events going on to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Zheng He's voyages. It has a particular focus on Singapore of course, where there will be a conference, exhibitions and the erection of a fibreglass replica of what might have been the famous "dragon's tooth gate" of the old Chinese texts. Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu editor Geoff Wade is quoted, reminding us that the Ming voyages were not purely peaceful in nature.