Koxinga movie
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Koxinga and a Chinese Restoration
Dressed in brightly coloured ceremonial robes, the young but seriously ill Cheng Cheng-kung (Koxinga) looked out of the window from his headquarters in Formosa (Taiwan) toward the China mainland, wondering if he would ever complete his mission 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 Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) against the rule of the Manchu Ch’ing Dynasty (1644-1911). The time was not 1949, but almost three hundred years ago during the middle 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, near Nagasaki, in 1623, to a Chinese father Cheng Chih-lung, a wandering pirate who helped to colonize Formosa, and a Japanese mother, surnamed Tagawa, who was from the ashigaru (samurai of humble origin, akin t
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The Samurai
Andrade, Tonio. "The Samurai". Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839537-008
Andrade, T. (2011). The Samurai. In Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West (pp. 60-67). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839537-008
Andrade, T. 2011. The Samurai. Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 60-67. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839537-008
Andrade, Tonio. "The Samurai" In Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West, 60-67. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839537-008
Andrade T. The Samurai. In: Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 2011. p.60-67. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839537-008
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Koxinga
17th-century Chinese military leader and founder of the Tungning Kingdom of Taiwan
Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (Chinese: 鄭成功; pinyin: Zhèng Chénggōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tīⁿ Sêng-kong; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), better known internationally as Koxinga (Chinese: 國姓爺; pinyin: Guóxìngyé; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-sèng-iâ), was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast.
In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan[2][3] and established Zheng dynastic rule on the island, which continued to exist until 1683.
Biography
Early years
Zheng Chenggong was born in 1624 in Hirado, Hizen Province, Japan, to Zheng Zhilong,[4] a Chinese merchant,[5] and a Japanese woman[6] known only by her surname "Tagawa,"[7] probably Tagawa Matsu.[8] He was raised there until the age of seven with the Japanese name Fukumatsu (福松)[9][10] and then moved to Fujian
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