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.

Ching Shih was born around ... there were special rules for female captives. If the captive was ugly, she was immediately released. If she was pretty, a pirate could marry her, but then had ...

The most famous of them, and in fact the most successful pirate ever, was a woman. Her name was Ching Shih and she ran the “Red Fleet” of more than 300 junks and thousands of men. She ...