I had no idea his life was going to be so fascinating. Koxinga was brought up as Fukumatsu in Japan’s Nagasaki, with a Japanese mother and a Chinese Hakka father. His father, Zheng Zhilong (鄭芝龍), soon ...

On Monday last week, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) made a speech in which she apologized to Aborigines, saying that: “The Dutch and the Koxinga Kingdom massacred and exploited ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When pirate Zheng Chenggong (better known as Koxinga) defeated the mightiest Western naval power of the time, he could not have foreseen being so honoured more than three centuries later.

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 ...

Koxinga (Darrin Skerrett) records his fourth win in six starts at the Wingatui meeting on November 3.Tayler Strong / Stuff Koxinga, the winner of four races for Gore owner-trainer Wayne Humphries ...

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 ...