In 1808, the Chinese Qing government, overwhelmed by pirates in the South China Sea, decided the time had come to take out the worst of them all. The Red Flag Fleet, under the command of the ...

Anne Bonny and Mary Read are just two of the famous female pirates who pillaged their way to fame. ... She was so terrifying that she basically forced the Chinese government to pay her to stop ...

When a Chinese pirate captain named Cheng married a beautiful prostitute in 1801, ... Ironically, Cheng I Sao's most famous laws applied to the taking of female prisoners.

According to Richard Glasspoole’s book “Mr. Glasspoole and the Chinese Pirates,” By 1804, ... Mary Read was one of two famous female pirates dressed like a man aboard John Rackham’s ship.

She was working as a sex worker in the late 1700s when pirates captured her, with Ching going on to marry Zheng Yi in 1801 who came from a long line of famous thieves and commanded a massive force ...

EXCLUSIVE: Nikita star Maggie Q is taking on another iconic character, this time from Chinese history. The Mission: Impossible III alumna is set to headline a limited series from Steven Jensen’s ...