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 ...

This strategy allowed Zheng Yi Sao and her husband Cheng I to gradually increase their power, and by 1806, they had annexed many pirate groups in southern China and had amassed a huge fortune without ...

The Imperial fleet in Tung Chung Bay is aflame. But the crew of Zheng I Sao’s ship watch on and cheer. This is the greatest victory of the Pirate Queen, scourge of the South China Sea.

For as long as cargo ships have sailed the seas ... At 26, she was captured by a famous pirate leader, Zheng Yi, whom she agreed to marry, but only if she became his equal business partner ...

Of the ships attacked by him and his crew ... characters that make up the court. However, pirates such as Olivier La Buse and Zheng Yi Sao have parallels to Capitaine Chevalle and Mistress ...

The movie will revolve around Shih Yang aka Zheng Yi Sao, a woman born into poverty who rose to fame after meeting pirate leader Cheng Yi and assuming full command of over 1,800 pirate ships following ...

During China's Qing Dynasty, a fearsome female pirate queen named Ching Shih ruled the South China Sea. She led the Red Flag Fleet, commanding over 1,800 pirate ships and around 80,000 pirates.