Q: You spent many years studying Zheng He, who made seven westward sea voyages in the Ming dynasty, and wrote your magnum opus Zheng He's Expeditions to the Western Ocean in the Ming Play "Xia Xiyang" and the Novel "Xiyang Ji." This was a very difficult challenge--why did you choose this topic, and how did you research it?
問：您花了多年功夫研究明代七下西洋的鄭和，完成鉅作《從明代戲曲和小說看鄭和下西洋之探險》，這是一個高難度的挑戰，您當初為何選擇這個主題，又如何從事研究工作？