Original: Koxinga was son of a former merchant who styled himself as a Ming Dynasty loyalist ; he hoped to marshal his troops on Taiwan and use it as a base to regain mainland China for the Ming Dynasty .
Simplified: In western history books it is known as the Kingdom of Taiwan , Kerr , George H. ( 1945 ) '' Formosa : Island Frontier '' Far Eastern Survey 14 ( 7 ) : pp .