February 15, 2021 • 9 min
Discover the woman who commanded 70,000 pirates and owned the South China Sea.
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Further Reading/Principle Sources:
https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/mrs-cheng-ching-shih-pirate.htm
http://www.theglobaldispatches.com/articles/the-pirate-ching-shih
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-chinese-female-pirate-who-commanded-80000-outlaws
https://library.um.edu.mo/ebooks/b35720116.pdf
Credits
Photo Credit: "Pirates: An Illustrated History of Privateers, Buccaneers & Pirates from the Sixteenth Century to the Present" (Londond, 1996). P.230. Book note mentions that, "this fanciful depiction is from History of Pirates of all Nations published in 1836"
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