trad kingdom simp death_date wg pinyin title zi birth_date article_title name
朱術桂 the ming dynasty 朱术桂 1683 1617 chu shu-kuei zhū shùguī prince tianqiu -lrb- 天球 tiānqiú tien-chiu -rrb- 1617 zhu shugui
 zhu shugui
zhu shugui

zhu shugui -lrb- 1617 -- 21 july 1683 -rrb- , courtesy name tianqiu and art name yiyuanzi , formally known as the prince of ningjing , was a ming dynasty prince and the last of the pretenders to the ming throne after the fall of the ming empire in 1644 .
he committed suicide when forces of the manchu-led qing empire conquered the pro-ming kingdom of tungning in taiwan , where he took shelter after mainland china fell under qing control .
he was a ninth-generation descendant of zhu yuanzhang -lrb- the hongwu emperor -rrb- , the founder of the ming dynasty , via the line of zhu yuanzhang 's 15th son , zhu zhi -lrb- the prince of liao -rrb- .
