Isle of Time
Koxinga and the Zheng Dynasty: The First Han Chinese Government on Taiwan (1662–1683)

The Tungning Dynasty

14 Volumes

Vol. 1

Koxinga's Kingdom

In May 1661, following the successful landing of Zheng Koxinga’s twenty-five thousand elite troops a...

Vol. 2

A King Imprisoned by Wrath

In the early days of 1662, the air over Anping was thick with the acrid stench of gunpowder and the ...

Vol. 3

The Eastern Conquest

In the early summer of 1662, as the founding king, Zheng Koxinga, drew his last breath amidst franti...

Vol. 4

Zheng Jing's Reforms

Zheng Jing inherited the Kingdom of Tungning in the summer of 1662 amid circumstances that should ha...

Vol. 5

The Architect of Tungning

In the year 1665, in the Ningnan Quarter of Tainan, the tropical sun pierced through the vibrant can...

Vol. 6

Han Settlement

Under Koxinga and Zheng Jing, Taiwan absorbed what was, for its time, a demographic flood. The 25,00...

Vol. 7

Vanishing Plain Warriors

In the 1660s, the landscape of central Taiwan offered a stark contrast to the highly sinicized, scho...

Vol. 8

The Anping Secret Pact

In the summer of 1670, a majestic vessel named The Experiment, flying the flag of the English East I...

Vol. 9

The Last Imperial Dream

In the winter of 1673, a political storm of cataclysmic proportions erupted across the half-shattere...

Vol. 10

The Tears of Lady Dong

In the deep twilight of an autumn day in 1681, inside the secluded inner chambers of the Anping Roya...

Vol. 11

The Twilight of the Boy King

In the golden autumn of September 1683, a suffocating silence fell over the sunset-drenched city of ...

Vol. 12

The Ultimate Duel

In the sweltering midsummer of 1683, the winds over the Taiwan Strait violently shifted. This was th...

Vol. 13

Prince Ningjing's Martyrdom

In the sweltering midsummer of 1683, a suffocating aura of despair hung over the city of Tainan. Omi...

Vol. 14

The Fall of Tungning

The Kingdom of Tungning did not so much collapse as unravel from within. When Zheng Jing died of ill...