Ching Shih: The Pirate Queen Who Ruled the Seas (and Terrified Everyone Else)
Celebrating Women's History Month with a badass a day.
Today we’re talking about Ching Shih, a woman who commanded an army of 80,000 pirates, outsmarted empires, and retired on her own terms. Oh, and she did it all in the early 1800s, when women were supposed to be, you know, sewing and sighing or whatever.
Ching Shih started her life as a Cantonese sex worker (because history loves to bury the lede), but sh…
