13 Facts About Zheng Keshuang

Zheng Keshuang was the second son of Zheng Jing and a grandson of Koxinga.

Zheng Keshuang's father was Zheng Jing, the king of Tungning and the eldest son of Koxinga, the founder of Tungning.

When Zheng Jing was leading a campaign against the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in China in the late 1670s, he designated his elder son, Zheng Kezang, as his heir apparent and put him in charge of Tungning's internal affairs.

Zheng Keshuang Jing returned to Tungning in 1680 from a failed campaign against the Qing Empire.

About ten days later, Feng sent Zheng Keshuang to meet Shi Lang.

Zheng Keshuang died of illness in 1707 in Beijing at the age of 37.

Later, during the reign of Yongzheng Emperor, the remaining family of Zheng Keshuang's was reassigned to Plain Red Banner.

Zheng Keshuang was survived by three sons: Zheng Anfu, Zheng Anlu, and Zheng Ankang.

Zheng Keshuang's descendants served as Bannermen in Beijing until 1911 when the Xinhai Revolution broke out and the Qing dynasty's fell, after which they moved back to Anhai and Nan'an in southern Fujian.

Zheng Keshuang Chouyu was born in Shandong in mainland China and called himself a "child of the resistance" against Japan and he became a refugee during the war, moving from place to place across China to avoid the Japanese.

Zheng Keshuang moved to Taiwan in 1949 and focuses his work on building stronger ties between Taiwan and mainland China.

Zheng Keshuang Chouyu was born in mainland China, he identified as Chinese and he felt alienated after he was forced to move to Taiwan in 1949 which was previously under Japanese rule and felt strange and foreign to him.

Zheng Keshuang appears as one of the antagonists in the novel The Deer and the Cauldron by Louis Cha.