Koxinga
Proper noun
Meaning
Koxinga
A Chinese-Japanese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China's southeastern coast.
Examples
Following the Manchu advance on Fujian, Koxinga retreated from his stronghold in Amoy ( Xiamen ) and besieged Taiwan in the hope of establishing a strategic base to marshal his troops to retake his base at Amoy.
The loss of the outpost on Formosa to Koxinga in the 1662 Siege of Fort Zeelandia and related internal turmoil in China (where the Ming dynasty was being replaced with the Qing dynasty ) brought an end to the silk trade after 1666.
In a family made wealthy from shipping and piracy, Koxinga inherited his father's trade networks, which stretched from Nagasaki to Macao.
Spain was forced to abandon Zamboanga in Mindanao temporarily and to withdraw its soldiers to Manila in 1662 after the Chinese under Koxinga threatened to invade the Spanish Philippines.