“"In 1895, The first Sino-Japanese war is near to the end, the Japanese Occupied Wei Hai City , Qing Dynasty’s Bei Yang Fleet can not fight anymore, Empress Dowager Cixi send Li Hong Zhang as deputy representative , He arrived at Shimonoseki in the same year march 19th, to meet with the Prime Minister of Japan Ito Hirofumi and started the negotiation. On April 17th, China and Japan officially signed a humiliating treaty, The Ma Guan Tiao Yue, Which the Japanese called Japan-Qing reconciliation Treaty.The Treaty stated Qing have to compensate Japan with 20000 grams of silver and cede territory of Liao Dong, Taiwan and Peng Hu to Japan. Taiwan have left it’s motherland for 50 years. Ma Guan Treaty is the most harsh and unfair Treaty of diplomatic history. Every person of the 400 million population need to pay half gram of silver, which is equal to 3 years of Qing government revenue and 4 years of Japan government revenue.“⁷ 

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"(The news paper stated) If we don’t win over the Qing Dynasty we can not win over those that are bigger than Qing. Which means Japan have to be ready and prepared to be not defeated by those strong European Countries staring at Qing’s back.The paper strongly condemned the failure of Japanese Diplomatic moves. The government are condemned notoriously by its citizens of returning some part of lands to China. The Minister for Foreign Affairs Mutsu Munemitsu has written his documentation in KenKen Roku, stating people are upset with Japan's diplomacy: the victory of our war has lost its leverage over bad diplomacy, those voices of upset ness have spread around and has not stop yet till now. The first big test for modern Japan's diplomacy, the Shimonoseki Reconciliation Conference. At this time Japan failed to estimate the complicated international relations, and have tasted its bitter consequences. This failure has become a great lesson for the Meiji era Japan and its foreign affairs."⁸

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"340 years ago, on April 30, 1661, Koxinga lead armed forces ashore to Luerhmen, Tainan, and besieged the Dutch for nine months, and then forced them out of Taiwan, which they had ruled for 38 years. Koxinga wanted to use Taiwan as a base for his resistance against the Qing empire, but in 1662, he suddenly fell ill and died, and his kingdom of Tung-ning was inherited by his son, Zheng Qing, and then by the third generation, his grandson, Zheng Keshuang, who was defeated and overthrown in 1683 by a Qing general named Shi Lang. Although Koxinga’s time in Taiwanwas short, he left behind many stories and legends.

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Zheng Cheng gong’s (1624-1662) hometown was Nan’an ,in Quan zhou, Fujian, and his father, Zheng Zhi long(1600-1661) was a maritime merchant and pirate, who in 1622 came to Pei kang in Taiwan with Yan Siqi, and often went to Hirato in Japan to trade. As a consequence of this last connection, he married a Japanese woman by the name of Tamura Matsu. In 1624,Zheng Chenggong’ was born. The coastal area where he was born still has a relic called the “child birth stone.” Zheng Cheng gong”s mother, Tamura, raised him on her own until he was seven, and had great influence on the development of his personality.In 1630, Zheng Zhi long took him back to Nan’an for his education. Because women were forbidden from leaving Japan, Tamura was unable to accompany him. Zheng Zhi long engaged Confucian scholars to educateZheng Cheng gong, so that he might be able to pass the imperial examinations"⁹ 

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I am surprised that Zheng Cheng Gong(Kongxinga), a famous pirate, that has some complicated ethnicity backgrounds, are well beloved in Mainland China, Taiwan and Japan at the same time, you rarely find a figure like that. I guess he is the anthropomorphised version of bubble tea in some way.