Tourists take pictures of a statue of Zheng Chenggong, also known as Koxinga, or Coxinga at Anping Fort in Tainan, Taiwan, 2015. Zheng was a pirate leader of Ming forces against the Manchu conquerors of China and best known for establishing Chinese control over Taiwan. Anping Fort used to be called Fort Zeelandia which was a fortress built over ten years from 1624 to 1634 by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), in the town of Anping (Tainan) on the island of Formosa (present-day Taiwan), during their 38-year rule over the western part of that island.