In the contemporary calendar, 2012 marks the 350th anniversary since that breakaway kingdom was founded, by Zheng Chenggong, who is better known outside China as Koxinga. He came from a storied ...

One Taiwanese comic book artist is bringing a new perspective to the study of the nation’s history through a new comic exploring the arrival of Koxinga, also known as Cheng Cheng-kung (鄭成功), and the ...

Breaking with 54 years of tradition, the central government will not send the interior minister to preside over an annual ritual memorializing Koxinga in Tainan, the Ministry of the Interior said, ...

Six members of a folk religion group from Fujian visited Taiwan last month to research the legacy and influence of the 17th century commander Zheng Chenggong, commonly known as Koxinga ...

The year is 1661. A Chinese general named Koxinga is sent to Taiwan to fend off the Dutch, who have taken over the island. In an effort to limit the food supply, the Dutch hid rice from the ...

China considered Koxinga (Zheng Cheng Gong) a rebel; Europeans, on the other hand, regarded him as nothing more than a pirate. Koxinga was a Ming loyalist who wrested Taiwan from the Dutch in the 17th ...

Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (or Koxinga) was a Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan and established a dynasty ...

Come 1661, China’s Japanese-born Ming Dynasty General Cheng Chen-kung (also known as Koxinga) retreated to Taiwan while fleeing Manchu invaders, leading to more Chinese migration. Koxinga ...

It might have found a strong readership there. Its main personage, Koxinga, is famous for driving the Dutch from Taiwan and bringing the island under Chinese rule. The story of his triumph is a ...