Abstract
The Koxingans : Ming Legitimists in the China Sea or Thalassocratic Pippinids Zheng Chenggong, the lord with a royal name (Koxinga), is an ambiguous figure in the China Seas in the seventeenth century. His resistance to the Manchu invaders in the name of the Southern Ming is characterized by a military and trade regime subject to no actual authority. His family history over four generations (Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Jing, and Zheng Keshuang) nevertheless presents the possibility of outlining the idea that these so-called “Koxingans,” in claiming the potestas, the civil and military power, sought to acquire the auctoritas, the status of legitimate rule in the guise of dynastic loyalty. This question has already been studied in Europe, notably in the trajectory of the Pippinids, who succeeded in freeing themselves from their status as “mayor of the palace” or majordomo to found the Carolingian Dynasty in the eighth century. The present political hypothesis is drawn from this historical comparison.
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