Ching Shih (also known as Shi Xainggu, Cheng I Sao, Ching Yih Saou, and Zheng Yi Sao) is today remembered as one of the most successful female pirates in the history of the world. During her active years as a pirate lord in early 19th century, she commanded over the famousRed Flag...
Ching Shih (1775-1844) Princess of the Chinese Seas In 1809, the Chinese government sprang a trap. They were gunning for a group who’d taken control of its southern waters, the Red Flag pirate fleet. Blockading them in a bay, the authorities laid siege to the pirates for three straight...
Chinh Shih, also known as Zheng Shi, started out as a prostitute in a brothel in China. A pirate named Zheng Yi was the leader of the Red Flag Fleet and met Ching and fell in love with her and her beauty. Stories differ on how they came to be married, he may have raided the bro...
Editors Noteson “The Chinese Pirate Ching Shih Plays Go With a Hooded Opponent”: This narrative poem, structured with predominantly blank verse quintets, features Madame Ching or Ching Shih (1775–1844), a prominent pirate in middle Qing China, who terrorized the China Sea in the early 19th...