Dr Sally Church – Publications
Forthcoming "Traces of Maritime Culture: Evidence of Shell-First Construction in the
Longjiang Shipyard Treatise of 1553", Paper for the Proceedings of the Second Annual
Conference of the Shanghai Maritime Museum, July 2011.
Forthcoming "Traces of a Memory: References to Zheng He's voyages in the Longjiang
Shipyard Treatise", Paper for the Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the Shanghai
Maritime Museum, July 2010.
Forthcoming (with Dr. John C. Gebhardt and Terry H. Little) "A Naval Architectural
Analysis of the Plausibility of 450-ft Treasure Ships" prepared for the International
Conference on Zheng He and the Afro-Asian World, Melaka, July 2010, for their
Proceedings.
Forthcoming "Nanjing's Longjiang Shipyard Treatise and Our Knowledge of Ming Ships",
Paper presented at the Beijing "Of Ships and Men" conference, November 2009, for their
Proceedings.
Forthcoming "Zhao Rugua's Chapter on Gujarat in Zhu fan zhi", Paper presented at the
"Gujarat and the Sea" conference, October 2010.
Forthcoming "Centre and Periphery in Ming Foreign Relations: The Case of Chen Cheng",
Proceedings of the "Fifth International Symposium on Culture-Exchanges: The Interactions
between 'Centers' and 'Peripheries'" at Furen (Fu-jen) University, Taibei, Taiwan, 15-16 May
2009.
Forthcoming "How Long is a Foot? The Size of the ships used on China's 15th century
Maritime Expeditions", Proceedings of the international conference held in Portugal in April
2008 called "From Naval Gigantism of Chinese Ming Dynasty to Universal Physics in a
Seaway: Structural Analysis of Ancient Wooden Boats in Asia and Europe".
Forthcoming (translator) "A Study of Küšän Tarim (Quxiantalin) in the Yuan dynasty" by
Liu Yingsheng, "The Kingdom of Kerait before the 13th Century" by Chen Dezhi, and "The
Kirghiz and Neighbouring Tribes in the Yuan Dynasty" by Han Rulin, Articles on Central
Asia for Beijing University completed in December 2008, ed. by Luo Xin.
2012 translator "A Study of Küšän Tarim (Quxiantalin) in the Yuan dynasty" by Liu
Yingsheng, "The Kingdom of Kerait before the 13th Century" by Chen Dezhi, and "The
Kirghiz and Neighbouring Tribes in the Yuan Dynasty" by Han Rulin: three translations
published in Luo Xin and Roger Covey, eds., Chinese Scholars on Inner Asia, Sinor Research
Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, Volume 174.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2012 co-editor (with Chia Lin Sien) Zheng He and the Afro-Asian World. Malaysia: PERZIM
and the International Zheng He Society. Proceedings from the International Zheng He
Conference, July 2010, Melaka.
2012 (with Dr. John C. Gebhardt and Terry H. Little) "A Naval Architectural Analysis of the
Plausibility of 450-ft Treasure Ships", in Chia Lin Sien and Sally K. Church, eds., Zheng He
and the Afro-Asian World. Singapore: International Zheng He Society.
2011 "Gujarat in a 13th Century Chinese Source: Zhao Rugua's Chapter on Gujarat in Zhu
fan zhi", "Zhao Rugua's Chapter on Gujarat in the Song dynasty Zhu fan zhi", Lotika
Varadarajan, ed., Gujarat and the Sea. Vadodara: Darshak Itihas Nidhi, 2011.
2011 "Traces of a Memory: References to Zheng He's Voyages in the Longjiang Shipyard
Treatise", in Shanghai Chinese Maritime Museum, ed., The Position and Mission of China's
Maritime Culture (Zhongguo hanghai wenhua zhi diwei yu shiming 中國航海文化之地位與
使命) (Shanghai: Shanghai shudian), pp. 97-109.
2010 "Two Ming Dynasty Shipyards in Nanjing and their Infrastructure", in Jun Kumura, ed.,
Shipwreck ASIA: Thematic Studies in East Asian Maritime Archaeology. Adelaide: Maritime
Archaeology Program.
2010 "Shiyong GIS yingshe Chen Cheng de xingcheng 使用 GIS 映射陳誠的行程" (Using
GIS to map Chen Cheng's Journey), published in Chinese in Zhong shidai houqi Dongya de
shijie yutu yu shijie dili zhishi – yi "Da Ming hunyi tu" yu "Jianglitu" wei zhongxin 中古时代
后期东亚的世界舆图与世界地理知识——以大明混一图与疆理图为中心 (Topography
and Knowledge of World Geography in Late Medieval Asia – Focusing on Daming Huyi Tu
and Konglido). Proceedings of the conference on Topography, Geography, and Cartography
held in Nanjing, China, on 20-23 July 2008. Paper presented in Chinese.
2008 "Què es coneix i què no es coneix dels vaixells de Zheng He" (What is Known and
What is Not Known about Zheng He's Ships), in Dolors Folch, ed., Els Grans Viatges de
Zheng He: Les expedicions marítimes de la Xina del segle XV, Museu Maritim de Barcelona.
Barcelona: Angle Editorial, for catalogue of an exhibit at the Museu Maritim de Barcelona
(Maritime Museum of Barcelona), on Zheng He's maritime expeditions, held from November
2008 to May 2009, published in Catalan, with translations into English and Spanish.
2008 "The Ming Treasure Shipyard Archaeological Report", in Susan Langley and Victor
Mastone, eds., ACUA Underwater Proceedings 2008, Advisory Council on Underwater
Archaeology. Columbus, Ohio: PAST Foundation.
2007 "The Ming Voyages and the Silk Road of the Sea", in Global Trade before
Globalization in the VIII-XVIII centuries, edited by Federico Mayor Zaragoza. Madrid:
Fundación Cultura de Paz.
2007 Review of Ming Dynasty Baochuanchang Shipyard in Nanjing (Baochuan chang yizhi:
Nanjing Ming Baochuan chang liu zuotang kaogu baogao 寶船廠遺址: ,南京明寶船廠六作
塘考古報告,) by the Nanjing Municipal Museum (Beijing: Wenwu, 2006), in Archipel, 2007,
and the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
2007 "Embarcações chinesas de meados da dinastia Ming. Ilustrações e descrições no Chouai
tubian. Oriente" ("Chinese Ships of the Mid-Ming: Illustrations and Descriptions in Chouhai
tubian") Fundaçao Oriente 16, January 2007, pp. 3-28.
2006 "Conceptions of Maritime Space in Xu Jing's Xuanhe fengshi Gaoli tujing", in Angela
Schottenhammer and Roderich Ptak, The Perception of Maritime Space in Traditional
Chinese Sources. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 79-107.
2005 "Zheng He: An Investigation into the Plausibility of 450-ft Treasure Ships",
Monumenta Serica, Vol. LIII, pp. 1-42.
2005 "The Colossal Ships of Zheng He: Image or Reality?", in Claudine Salmon and
Roderich Ptak (eds.), Zheng He: images & perceptions, Bilder & Wahrnehmungen.
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
2005 "The Liao as a Measure of Zheng He’s Ships", Proceedings of International Academic
Forum in Memory of the 600th Anniversary of Zheng He’s Expedition (Nanjing, China), pp.
505-513.
2004 "The Giraffe of Bengal: A Medieval Encounter in Ming China", Medieval History
Journal, Vol. 7, April, pp. 1-36.
2002 "Changing Attitudes Toward Foreigners from Overseas: An Investigation into the
Policy of the Ming Emperor Yongle, 1403-1424", Nanyang xuebao (Journal of the South
Seas Society) 56, December, pp. 45-73.
2000 (with Susan Daruvala) "Zhigang: Selections from the Record of the First Diplomatic
Mission to the West", Renditions 53-54.
2000 (with Yuan Boping) The Oxford Starter Chinese Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
1999 "Beyond the Words: Jin Shengtan's Perception of Hidden Meaning in the Xixiang ji,"
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, June 1999.
1994 "Going to Tiger Mountain," a translation of an autobiographical piece by Qu Leilei,
done in collaboration with Dr. Ng Mau-sang, in Another Province: New Chinese Writers
from London, edited by Jessie Lim and Li Yan (London: Lambeth Chinese Community
Center and Si Yu Chinese Times, 1994).