#265 - Qing 10: Zeelandia Has Fallen

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Koxinga takes Taiwan by storm, forcing the Dutch East India Company off the island for good, and heralding the dawn of Chinese rule over that overseas outpost. Time Period Covered: 1661-1664 CE Major Historical Figures: Southern Ming Loyalists [Xiamen, Fujian]: Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), Lord of the Imperial Surname [1624-1662] Yang Ying, Court Revenue Officer & Recordkeeper Dutch East India Co. (VOC) [Ft. Zeelandia, Taiwan]: He Tingbin, Headman & translator Cornelius Caesar [Governor, 1651-1656] Frederick Coyett [Governor, 1656-1662] Hermanus Clenk van Odesse [Governor-select, dispatched 1662] Admiral Jan van der Laan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.0	Episode 2. China.
0:48.0	Episode 265, Zolandia has fallen.
0:56.0	First off, I'd just like to wish everyone a very happy lunar new year or Chinese new year however you want to term it. It is the year of the wood dragon which is kind of the
1:02.4	lamest of the dragons but even so the dragon is like the best
1:05.9	symbol and then like number two is tiger usually so even if you're the worst dragon
1:12.4	you're still the worst of the best.
1:15.0	And no one can take that away from you.
1:17.0	Anyways, what I'm trying to say is, let's get into the episode.
1:21.0	We last left off with Jungchong
1:23.7	preparing seemingly for an invasion of the island of Taiwan
1:29.6	in order to displace the Dutch East India Company's holdings there centered around Fort Zalandia.
1:37.2	And today, minor spoiler alert, although not really, he will do exactly that. All right, let's go. In April of 1661,
1:46.2	strange portents were occurring. One day, a mermaid was sighted off of Zelandia Peninsula.
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