{"id":3759,"date":"2005-07-11T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T20:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/07\/11\/china-daily-is-this-young-kenyan-chinese-descendant\/"},"modified":"2005-07-11T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T20:07:38","slug":"china-daily-is-this-young-kenyan-chinese-descendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/07\/china-daily-is-this-young-kenyan-chinese-descendant\/","title":{"rendered":"China Daily: Is this young Kenyan Chinese descendant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/W020050711362742278685.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/W020050711362742278685.jpg','popup','width=400+20,height=318+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/images\/W020050711362742278685-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"125\" alt=\"W020050711362742278685\" \/><\/a> From The China Daily, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.ce.cn\/Life\/social\/200507\/11\/t20050711_4156560.shtml\">via China Economic Net:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNearly 600 years ago, 20 Chinese sailors swam ashore an island off Kenya&#8217;s east coast, having escaped from a shipwreck.<\/p>\n<p>They went on to marry local women and convert to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Now a 19-year-old girl who claims to be one of their descendants has come to China to study, having been given a scholarship by the Chinese Government.<\/p>\n<p>Mwamaka Sharifu, from Lamu island in Kenya, will begin her studies in September.<\/p>\n<p>She says she is a descendant of sailors travelling with Chinese explorer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zheng_He\">Zheng He<\/a> (1371-1435) in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ming_dynasty\">the Ming Dynasty<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The China Daily, via China Economic Net: Nearly 600 years ago, 20 Chinese sailors swam ashore an island off Kenya&#8217;s east coast, having escaped from a shipwreck. 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