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Koxinga

1624 - 1662

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Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (Chinese: 鄭成功; pinyin: Zhèng Chénggōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tīⁿ Sêng-kong; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), better known internationally as Koxinga (Chinese: 國姓爺; pinyin: Guóxìngyé; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-sèng-iâ), was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast. In 1661, Koxinga defeated the Dutch outposts on Taiwan and established a dynasty, the House of Koxinga, which ruled part of the island as the Kingdom of Tungning from 1661 to 1683. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koxinga has received more than 850,469 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Koxinga is the 1,683rd most popular politician (down from 1,635th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Japan and the 19th 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

  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Koxinga ranks 1,683 out of 15,577. Before him are Yuri Dolgorukiy, Romanos II, Jehoram of Judah, Pachacuti, Harald Hardrada, and Jehoash of Judah. After him are Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, Crown Prince Sado, Talaat Pasha, Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal, Pasquale Paoli, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koxinga ranks 63 out of 6,048. Before him are Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Shinzō Abe (1954), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), and Emperor Suizei (-669). After him are Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Liv Ullmann (1938), Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Date Masamune (1567), and Kazuo Ishiguro (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Koxinga ranks 19. Before him are Itō Hirobumi (1841), Takeda Shingen (1521), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Shinzō Abe (1954), and Emperor Suizei (-669). After him are Uesugi Kenshin (1530), Fumio Kishida (1957), Emperor Go-Momozono (1758), Emperor Nakamikado (1702), Tomoe Gozen (1157), and Emperor Annei (-577).

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