Discover the woman who commanded 70,000 pirates and owned the South China Sea.

https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory

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"