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Historical person
1670–1707
Zheng Keshuang was the final ruler of the Zheng regime in Taiwan. He succeeded as a child amid factional conflict and surrendered to the Qing after Shi Lang’s naval victory in 1683. He appears in the Taiwan episodes of The Deer and the Cauldron.
Jin Yong’s fiction uses this historical figure within a narrative that blends documented events, popular legend and wuxia invention.
Series
Set during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor, The Deer and the Cauldron follows Wei Xiaobao—called Trinket in John Minford’s English translation—from a Yangzhou brothel into the Forbidden City. Illiterate, irreverent and almost entirely without conventional martial virtue, he survives through mimicry, bribery, luck and an instinct…
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