Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功 (1624-1662)
- Born in Hirado, Japan (1624): Japanese mother, Chinese trader/pirate father (Zheng Zhilong)
- Educated in China from age 7 after father receives Ming appointment
- 1644 — enters Imperial Academy of Learning in Nanjing
- With fall of Nanjing to Qing in 1645, Zheng Zhilong leaves for Fujian
- Zheng Chenggong becomes leader of Ming resistance in 1650
- 1661-62 Seizes Taiwan from Dutch and raids Phillipines
- 1662 Dies of illness, possibly malaria
- 1683 Ming defeats Zheng dynasty Ming loyalists
Zheng Chenggong statue in Xiamen, Fujian, China