A must-read for anyone researching the Zheng regime; its extensive use of Dutch historical sources effectively fills many existing gaps in the scholarship. Perhaps the only flaw is that the section on Zheng Jing spans only two chapters, feeling somewhat starting strong but ending abruptly. Fortunately, Xing Hang’s book Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World can serve to compensate for this.