Editing Koxinga (section)

===Death===
Koxinga died of unspecified illness in June 1662, only a few months after defeating the Dutch in Taiwan, at the age of 37. [[:zh:鄭成功#去世|Contemporary accounts]] named heat stroke and cold as causes and modern historians suspect malaria. Qing history claimed that he died in a sudden fit of madness when his officers refused to carry out his orders to execute his son [[Zheng Jing]], who had had an affair with his wet nurse and conceived a child with her.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lian |first=Heng |author-link=Lian Heng |script-title=zh:臺灣通史 |trans-title=The General History of Taiwan |language=zh |oclc=123362609 |date=1920}}</ref>   Zheng Jing succeeded his father as the [[:zh:延平王|Prince of Yanping]]. According to the historian Roberts Antony, "the death of Zheng Chenggong began the downturn of family fortunes."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Antony |first1=Robert |title=Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China |date=2003 |publisher=Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley |isbn=9781557290786 |pages=32–33}}</ref>