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- Zheng Zhilong, Marquis of Tong'an (Chinese: 鄭芝龍; pinyin: Zheng Zhilong; Wade–Giles: Ching Chih-lung; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Chi-liông; April 16, 1604 – November 24, 1661), baptismal name Nicholas Iquan Gaspard, was a Fujianese (Hokkien) admiral, pirate leader, merchant, translator, military general, and politician of the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the Manchu Qing.
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Zheng Zhilong, Marquis of Tong'an (Chinese: 鄭芝龍; pinyin: Zheng Zhilong; Wade–Giles: Ching Chih-lung; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tēⁿ Chi-liông; April 16, 1604 – November 24, 1661), baptismal name Nicholas Iquan Gaspard, was a Fujianese (Hokkien) admiral, pirate leader, merchant, translator, military general, and politician of the late Ming ...
Zheng Zhilong (born 1604, Nan’an, Fujian province, China—died Nov. 24, 1661, Beijing) was a Chinese pirate leader who achieved great power in the transitional period between the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911/12) dynasties.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 6, 2017 · Zheng Zhilong, known as Tei Shiryu in Japanese, set foot on Hirado in 1612 as a young man of destitute. His fortune turned after having made acquaintance with Li Dan, whom Richard Cocks , the head of English Chamber of Commerce at Hirado from 1615 to 1621, addressed as Captain Andrea Ditties.
- Young-tsu Wong
- rongzu@ncu.edu.tw
- 2017
In the mid-Ming period, many pirates as powerful as Zhilong, such as Xu Chaoguang (d. 1564), Zeng Yiben (d. 1569), and Lin Daoqian, raided coastal areas for tens of years before the government could impede them.
Zheng Zhilong 鄭芝龍 (died 1661), courtesy name Zheng Yiguan 鄭一官, later Zheng Feihuang 鄭飛皇, was a supporter of the Southern Ming period 南明 (1644-1661), and father of the freebooter Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功 (Coxinga).
Zheng Zhilong, Marquis of Tong'an, baptismal name Nicholas Iquan Gaspard, was a Fujianese (Hokkien) admiral, pirate leader, merchant, translator, military general, and politician of the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the Manchu Qing.
Zheng fils created a Chinese maritime state that eventually captured the Dutch East India Company’s colony of Taiwan, one of the few European colonies to fall to a non-European power. Our pirate story thus sheds light on a basic question of global history: how pirates and their interactions with states may help us to understand European expansion.
