Maritime ProwessZheng Zilong and Zheng Chenggong Shaping the Political Landscape in the Ming-Qing Cataclysm

The Macau-baptized Zheng Zhilong took the opportunity of the Ming-Qing transition and emerged as a compelling Ming official and an invincible pirate king rivalling the elusive Dutch. He forged a huge piratical empire and helped install a shadow government of the defunct Ming court in south China. Im...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Christina Miu Bing Cheng
Format: Articles
Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2019
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40060/2599
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The Macau-baptized Zheng Zhilong took the opportunity of the Ming-Qing transition and emerged as a compelling Ming official and an invincible pirate king rivalling the elusive Dutch. He forged a huge piratical empire and helped install a shadow government of the defunct Ming court in south China. Immersed in Ming Loyalism, his son Zheng Chenggong ousted the Dutch from Taiwan and established the Kingdom of Dongning to challenge the ruling power of the new Qing Empire.
Instituto Cultural de Macau
Macau
Review of Culture
Articles
2019
Battle of Liaoluo Bay
Dutch Taiwan
Kingdom of Dongning.
Ming loyalism
Southern Ming
Christina Miu Bing Cheng
spellingShingle Maritime ProwessZheng Zilong and Zheng Chenggong Shaping the Political Landscape in the Ming-Qing Cataclysm
Christina Miu Bing Cheng
Battle of Liaoluo Bay
Dutch Taiwan
Kingdom of Dongning.
Ming loyalism
Southern Ming
title Maritime ProwessZheng Zilong and Zheng Chenggong Shaping the Political Landscape in the Ming-Qing Cataclysm
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title_short Maritime ProwessZheng Zilong and Zheng Chenggong Shaping the Political Landscape in the Ming-Qing Cataclysm
title_sort maritime prowesszheng zilong and zheng chenggong shaping the political landscape in the ming-qing cataclysm
topic Battle of Liaoluo Bay
Dutch Taiwan
Kingdom of Dongning.
Ming loyalism
Southern Ming
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Dutch Taiwan
Kingdom of Dongning.
Ming loyalism
Southern Ming
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Southern Ming
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