Artist's rendering of Ching Shih (or Zheng Yi Sao) "A brilliant Cantonese pirate, she commanded 1800 ships and more than 80,000 pirates — men, women, and even children. She challenged the world superpower empires at the time such as the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty. Undefeated, she would become one of China and Asia's strongest female pirates...She was also one of the few pirate captains to retire from piracy."
