The following is an excerpt from the new book, History Vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don’t Want You to Know, by Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams. When most people think of pirates, they ...

Ching, aka Zheng Yi Sao, became China’s most successful pirate during the Qing period, building a fearful empire that terrorised the region.

Ching Shih was notoriously difficult to impress. History’s most powerful and swag-laden pirate, Canton native, scourge of the Chinese, British and Portuguese fleets, with roughly 1,800 ships and ...

Few figures in history are as feared and fascinating as Ching Shih (also known as Shi Yang, Zheng Yi Sao, Shi Xianggu, and Shek Yeung), a woman who rose from humble beginnings to command one of the ...