KOXINGA

kŏksĭngˈgə, Mandarin Kuo-hsing-yeh [lord of the imperial surname], 1624–62, Chinese general, whose original name was Chêng Ch'êng-kung. From 1646 to 1660 he led many unsuccessful campaigns of Ming dynasty loyalists against the invading Ch'ing dynasty. Koxinga captured (1661) part of Taiwan from the Dutch. The population of the southern coast of China was evacuated (1662) to facilitate the defense against his raids. After the death of his son Chêng Ching, Taiwan fell to the Ch'ing (1683).

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books on: Koxinga  - 137 results

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Culture & Foreign Policy
Book by Valerie M. Hudson; Lynne Rienner, 1997
Subjects: International Relations And Culture, United States--Foreign Relations
...promoted by the Guomindang that linked Koxinga to Sun Yatsens revolution through two...stopped short of explicit analogy with Koxinga because, in the end, he lost. Thus...mainland Croizier, 1977:63-70 . The Koxinga myth has also been adopted from time to...
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The Search for Modern China
Book by Jonathan D. Spence; W. W. Norton, 1999
Subjects: China--History--20th Century, China--History--Ch`Ing Dynasty, 1644-1912
...Amoy became an international entrepot. Koxinga even organized ten trading companies that...armies closed in on his main Amoy base, Koxinga made the bold decision to attack the Dutch...details of Zeelandias defensive system, Koxinga pressed the siege; but although he conquered...
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The Great Wall Crumbles
Book by Grover Clark; The Macmillan Company, 1935
Subjects: China--Civilization--History, China--Foreign Relations, China--History, China--Politics And Government
...determined man whom the foreigners called Koxinga. His father had gone over to the Manchus...revolt centered in Fukien Province but Koxinga made numerous raids into the interior...heir finally gave up in despair, but Koxinga, in spite of offers of rich emoluments...
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A Short History of China
Book by Edward Thomas Williams; Harper & Brothers, 1928
Subjects: China--History
...treated with all the respect their rank. KOXINGA While Tang Wang was maintaining himself...phrase was corrupted by Europeans into "Koxinga." After the overthrow of Tang Wang he...in control of the island since 1624. Koxinga landed there in 1661 and after nine months...
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Flood Tide in China
Book by C. P. Fitzgerald; The Cresset Press, 1958
Subjects: China
...from the south Chinese Kok Sing Ya, as Koxinga. Soon the last Ming pretender was driven...where he was betrayed to the Manchus. Koxinga, safe beyond the seas, now declared...China coast. After a rule of two years Koxinga died, still master of Formosa. His son...
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journal articles on: Koxinga  - 7 results

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An Accelerating Divergence? the Revisionist Model of World History and the Question of Eurasian Military Parity: Data from East Asia
Journal article by Tonio Andrade; Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 36, 2011
Subjects: Military history--Research, Modernization--Military aspects, World history--Military aspects
...1668, when a Chinese warlord named Koxinga defeated the Dutch and captured their...work (Andrade 2004), fires back that Koxinga was victorious only by adopting European...forbade them to trade overseas. The rise of Koxinga changed the equation. He ruled a splittist...
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Piracy and World History: An Economic Perspective on Maritime Predation
Journal article by J. L. Anderson; Journal of World History, Vol. 6, 1995
Subjects: World History
...demise at the hands of Manchu invaders. Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), the son of a high Ming official who had made his wealth...An appraisal of the episode is found in Ralph C. Croizier, Koxinga and Chinese Nationalism: History, Myth, and Hero (Cambridge...
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California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency
Journal article by Madeline Y. Hsu; Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 2002
Subjects: Emigration and immigration--Analysis
...was further depleted by Qing attempts to eradicate the pirate Koxinga, or Zheng Cheng gong, by forcing all Chinese living on the...been subject to Qing attempts to wipe out the pirate-warlord Koxinga by ordering all Chinese to move 25 km inland in 1661. Because...
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Vietnamese Ceramic Trade to the Philippines in the Seventeenth Century
Journal article by Kerry Nguyen-Long; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 30, 1999
Subjects: Ceramics--Marketing, East India Co.--History, Southeast Asia--17th century
...position in the face of an expected attack from the Ming loyalist Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong), then based in Taiwan.(51) This event...withdrawal to Manila in 1663 to face an expected attack by Koxinga which never materialized; this brought to an inconclusive...
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Emporium in Imperio: Nanyang Networks and the Straits Chinese in Singapore, 1819-1914
Journal article by Mark Ravinder Frost; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Nanyang, China--Social aspects, Overseas Chinese--History, Singapore--Demographic aspects
...particular, witnessed an expansion in Hokkien naval enterprises and attacks on the mainland under Cheng Chi-lungs son, Koxinga, that represented a direct challenge to the authority of the Qing at the borders of their influence. When Koxingas Taiwan...
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magazine articles on: Koxinga  - 3 results

 
 
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Taiwan: The Little Island That Could
Magazine article by Anne F. Thurston; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 20, Summer 1996
Subjects: China--Relations with Taiwan, Taiwan--History
...and established the Qing dynasty in 1644) was finally successful in routing the remnant forces of the deceased Ming patriot Koxinga (Cheng Cheng-kung), who had used the island unsuccessfully as a base from which to challenge Manchu rule. Historians...
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Was There a Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe? Historians Have Long Argued Whether the Years 1500-1700 Saw a Revolutionary Change in the Art and Organization of War
Magazine article by Jeremy Black; History Today, Vol. 58, July 2008
Subjects: Armed Forces--Innovations, Armed forces--Innovations, Military history--Analysis, Political movements--Military aspects, War--Analysis, Wars--Analysis
...applicability for East Asia or Africa in the period 1650-1850. Notable here were the failures of the Dutch in Taiwan (where Koxinga or Zheng Cheng-gong drove them out in 1662 after a settlement of almost forty years); of Russia in the Amur Valley; and...
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Taiwan and Mainland China
Magazine article by Peter Kien-Hong Yu; Contemporary Review, Vol. 278, June 2001
Subjects: Autonomy--Taiwan, China--Relations with Taiwan, International relations--Taiwan, Taiwan--Relations with China, Taiwanese--Political activity
...more frictions. The proponents argue that only in this way can harmony be maintained in Taiwan. Before Zheng Chenggong (or Koxinga) went to Taiwan in 1661, there were about 50,000 Han people. In 1895, there were about 2.8 or 4 million native Taiwanese...


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newspaper articles on: Koxinga  - 3 results

 
 
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A Disputed and Democratic Island Nation's Potent History
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 11, 2005
...the fallen Ming dynasty, led by Duke Koxinga, fled to Taiwan, 90 miles off the south...island, and established a government. Koxinga died a year later but his son, Cheng...new history of Taiwan, diverge. For Koxinga had to face the Manchus with only the...
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Chinese Roots
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 24, 2004
...it was at one time the headquarters of Koxinga (Zhieng Cheng Kou) who dislodged the...years. After the surrender of the Dutch, Koxinga promptly died probably of malaria but...Almighty in his favor. It was the threat of Koxinga invading the Philippines that made the...
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433rd Araw Ng Maynila
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 24, 2004
...the Philippines. Foreign invaders attempted to capture Intramuros, notably Limahong in 1571, the Dutch in 1610-1650, Koxinga in 1660, and the British in 1762-1764, until the Americans took over in August, 1898. By the 19th century, the Walled...


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encyclopedia articles on: Koxinga  - 4 results

 
 
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Koxinga
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KOXINGA koksing g , Mandarin Kuo-hsing-yeh lord of the imperial surname, 1624...campaigns of Ming dynasty loyalists against the invading Ching dynasty. Koxinga captured (1661) part of Taiwan from the Dutch. The population of the...
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Tainan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...from 1624 to 1662. It then became the islands capital under Koxinga and his son. Called Taiwan or Taiwanfu, it remained the political...Tainan. A cultural center, it has many temples, the shrine of Koxinga, and a modern college of engineering...
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Taiwan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Spaniards in 1641 and assumed control of the entire island. They in turn were forced to abandon Taiwan in 1662, when Koxinga , a general of the Ming dynasty of China who had to flee from the Manchus, seized the island and established an independent...
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Chilung
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...commercial center. Occupied by the Spanish in 1626, it passed (1641) to the Dutch, who lost it to invading Chinese under Koxinga in 1662. It passed to the Manchus in 1683. The port was opened to Western trade in 1860. Captured by the Japanese in 1895...


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