Zhu YoulangWade-Giles romanization Chu Yu-langPinyin Zhu Youlang, reign title (Wade–Giles romanization) Yung-liname Yongli, also called Prince of KueiGui  ( born November 1623 , Peking—died June  Beijing, China—died April 1662 , Yünnanfü  Kunming, Yunnan province )  claimant to the Ming throne after the Manchu forces of Manchuria had captured the Ming capital at Peking Beijing and established the Ch’ing Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12).

A grandson of the 13th Ming emperor , Wan-li Shenzong (reigned 1573–16201572–1620, reign name Wanli), Chu Zhu was given the title of the prince of KueiGui. After Zhu Yujian (the prince of T’ang (Tang; 1602–46), another claimant to the throne, was captured and executed by the Manchus Qing forces in 1646, Chu Zhu fled to Chao-ch’ingZhaoqing, in South China , and was proclaimed the new Ming emperor with the reign title of Yung-liYongli. Chu’s Zhu’s forces make made a stand at the city of Kuci-lin in Kwangsi ProvinceGuilin in Guangxi province; his armies, using Western cannon, were at first successful, and by 1648 seven several provinces were under his nominal control. But in 1649 the Manchus Qing forces recouped their losses, and Chu Zhu was driven by a series of military defeats into southwest southwestern China and in 1659 was forced to flee into Myanmar (Burma). Ch’ing Qing forces pursued him into that country, and he was captured, taken back to China, and executed.

All the members of Chu’s Zhu’s household were Christian converts. During the fighting, the empress dowager, baptized Helena, sent a letter to Pope Innocent X asking for his prayers for the Ming cause. By the time the Vatican’s reply arrived several years later, Chu Zhu and Helena were dead.