Think again! Zheng Yi Sao - a former sex worker turned Pirate Queen who terrorised the South China Sea in the 19th Century - blows them both out of the water. Script by Emma Nagouse, University of ...

Many of us have seen the movie franchise Pirates of the Caribbean, though few probably realize the character of Mistress Chen represents the greatest pirate of all time; Zhen Yi Sao, or Ching Shih ...

When the smoke cleared, the Red Flag Fleet left behind a graveyard of burning hulks, roughly half of the Qing Navy, and even took a few dozen ships home ... notorious pirate Zheng Yi in 1801.