“Female pirates are not rare, and it wasn’t just Anne Bonny and Mary Read,” Bloom said during her presentation. “There have ...

One of the most prosperous pirates in history, Zheng Yi Sao was born Shi Yang in Guangdong, China, in 1775.She came from a humble background and likely worked in a floating brothel in Canton.

Her life changed drastically at age 26, when she married the notorious pirate Zheng Yi in 1801. Her new husband's pirate fleet was already impressive, but it became an armada under her shared command.

LOS ANGELES — The most successful pirate in history was a woman. Zheng Yi Sao, active in the South China Sea between 1801 and 1810, took ownership of her husband’s Red Flag Fleet after he died ...

Her name changed to Zheng Yi Sao, meaning “the wife of Cheng.” Before they were married, Shih demanded 50% of Yi’s profits and partial control of his fleet, which he agreed to (History Hit ...

Introducing Zheng Yi Sao, a former sex worker who became the most successful pirate of all time. Made in partnership with BBC Ideas and The Open University, external Find out more on the You’re ...

In addition to the aforementioned O’Malley, there were examples like her Chinese counterpart Shi Yang, better known as Zheng Yi Sao, who commanded 24 ships and nearly 1,500 pirates.

What would you want to see?” We have him to thank, then, for the series’ sojourns to the deck of 19th century pirate Zheng Yi Sao’s ship and the Trojan War.

I don’t know much about the real-life Zheng Yi Sao, and clearly, Our Flag Means Death doesn’t go for historical accuracy, but it would have been fascinating to see how the show tried or didn ...

In 1805, he united the local pirates into the Guangdong Pirate Confederation, which Zheng Yi Sao helped greatly with. When he fell overboard and died in 1807, she took over.