China’s Pirate Queen: Zheng Yi Sao/Shi Yang.
The story of the most successful pirate of all time.
6 min readOct 16, 2022
One of the most feared pirates of all time was missing a few clichés details No wooden leg, parrot, or even a long dark beard. She was, in fact, unable to grow one.
She went by a few different names. Her most famous one is Zheng Yi Sao, but she was born Shi Yang.
