Sun Kewang

Timeline

1. 1646–1650Yunnan · YunnanAfter Zhang Xianzhong's death, he and Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and others led the Dashixi remnants from Guizhou into Yunnan, expelling Southern Ming remnants and chieftain forces, taking all of Yunnan and making it a southwest base against Qing.
2. 1650–1656Kunming · YunnanHe welcomed the Yongli Emperor into Yunnan, was enfeoffed as Prince of Qin, and held overall military and civil power. He initially organized an eastern campaign with favorable prospects, but became domineering, and conflict with Prince of Jin Li Dingguo intensified.
3. 1657–1660Beijing · BeijingDefeated in civil war with Li Dingguo and at the end of his rope, he went to Changsha and surrendered to Qing, being enfeoffed as Prince Qin of the First Rank by the Qing court. He later went to the capital for audience and died in Beijing in 1660, whereupon the southwest anti-Qing situation was reorganized.
4. 1661–1665Yunnan · YunnanAfter Sun Kewang's death, the military-political foundation, chieftain relations, and follower resources he had built in Yunnan over many years were inherited and reorganized by Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and others, still supporting the Yongli regime's final resistance in the southwest until the Yongli court entered Burma in 1662.