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Koxinga

1624 - 1662

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Zheng Chenggong (Chinese: 鄭成功; pinyin: Zhèng Chénggōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tīⁿ Sêng-kong; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), born Zheng Sen (鄭森) and better known internationally by his honorific title Koxinga (Chinese: 國姓爺; pinyin: Guóxìngyé; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-sèng-iâ; lit. 'lord granted with royal surname'), was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting the Qing dynasty on China's southeastern coast. Born in Kyushu, Japan to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother, Zheng rose through the Ming court via the imperial examinations and was serving as a Guozijian scholar in Nanjing when Beijing fell to rebels in 1644. He swore allegiance to Longwu Emperor, who favored and granted him the royal surname Zhu in 1645, a name he proudly used instead of his native Zheng surname for the rest of his life, hence popularizing his aforementioned honorific name. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koxinga has received more than 976,618 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Koxinga is the 1,471st most popular politician (up from 1,678th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Japan (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Politician.

Koxinga is most famous for his invasion of Taiwan in 1661 and his subsequent establishment of the Kingdom of Tungning.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Koxinga ranks 1,471 out of 19,576. Before him are Jiajing Emperor, Porfirio Díaz, Masinissa, Charles III of Naples, Leo von Caprivi, and Urho Kekkonen. After him are Uzziah, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Alexios IV Angelos, Anthemius, Millard Fillmore, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1624, Koxinga ranks 1. After him are Guarino Guarini, Angelus Silesius, Empress Meishō, George Fox, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Maria Miloslavskaya, François de la Chaise, Arnold Geulincx, Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, Thomas Sydenham, and Barent Fabritius. Among people deceased in 1662, Koxinga ranks 2. Before him is Blaise Pascal. After him are Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Zhu Youlang, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Johann Crüger, Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, and Adriaen van de Venne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koxinga ranks 55 out of 6,245. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Olivia de Havilland (1916), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Emperor Ninkō (1800), Emperor Kōkaku (1771), and Tadao Ando (1941). After him are Isamu Akasaki (1929), Emperor Suizei (-669), Liv Ullmann (1938), Junji Nishikawa (1907), Empress Michiko (1934), and Mako (1933).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Koxinga ranks 16. Before him are Emperor Kōmei (1831), Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894), Takeda Shingen (1521), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Emperor Ninkō (1800), and Emperor Kōkaku (1771). After him are Emperor Suizei (-669), Fumio Kishida (1957), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Tomoe Gozen (1157), Emperor Annei (-577), and Yoshihide Suga (1948).

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