Koxinga biography
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House of Koxinga
Ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan ()
"Zheng dynasty" redirects here. For other states in history, see Zheng (disambiguation).
The House of Koxinga, also known as the Zheng dynasty, was the ruling family of the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan. They played a significant role in the history of East Asia and Southeast Asia, particularly during the seventeenth century.[5]
Names
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Overview
[edit]See also: Kingdom of Tungning
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Following the Qing conquest of the Kingdom of Tungning in , the territory's last ruler, Zheng Keshuang, Prince of Yanping and grandson of Koxinga, was taken to Beijing.[5] The Kangxi Emperor granted Zheng the peerage title of Duke Hanjun and inducted him and his descendants into the Plain Red Banner.[5] The family remained in Beijing until , when the Xinhai
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Abstract
The life of Ming loyalist Koxinga has become a thing of myth and legend. Whilethe facts of his life may be debated, there is no question about the lasting impact he had on the island nation of Taiwan. In Koxinga expelled the Dutch from Taiwan. He planned to use the island as a base of operations for his campaign against the Manchurian leaders of China, the Qing Dynasty. Koxinga was unsuccessful in his efforts against the Qing, but found success on the island of Taiwan. During his short time there he established a government and ended Western control. Centuries after his death, Koxinga lives on as a Taiwanese folk legend, commemorated in shrines and temples. He is viewed by the Taiwanese as the original ancestor of their nation.
Historical Background
There are few mentions of Taiwan in Chinese history before an explorer of the Ming dynasty announced his disc
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Koxinga and a kinesisk Restoration
Dressed in brightly coloured ceremonial robes, the young but seriously ill Cheng Cheng-kung (Koxinga) looked out of the öppning from his headquarters in Formosa (Taiwan) toward the China mainland, wondering if he would ever complete his uppdrag of liberating it from the alien forces who were then occupying the imperial throne in the ‘Forbidden City’ of Peking.
Koxinga was not a modern Chinese Nationalist, protesting against the rule of the Communists in China; he was a defender of the claims of the native kinesisk Ming Dynasty () against the rule of the Manchu Ch’ing Dynasty (). The time was not , but almost three hundred years ago during the mittpunkt of the seventeenth century.
The complexity and cross currents evident in the life of Koxinga were manifest as early as his birth. Koxinga was born in Hirado, Japan, nära Nagasaki, in , to a kinesisk father Cheng Chih-lung, a wandering pirate who helped to colonize Formosa, and a Japanese mother, surn