Complex sentence: Others, like Kong Shangren, who claimed to be a descendent of Confucius, joined the new regime but wrote a poignant drama, The Peach Blossom Fan, which explored the moral decay of the Ming in order to explain its fall.
Split into simpler sentences: Others, like Kong Shangren, who claimed to be a descendent of Confucius, joined the new regime. Kong wrote a poignant drama, The Peach Blossom Fan, which explored the moral decay of the Ming in order to explain its fall.