Who was the greatest pirate in history? Blackbeard? Captain Kidd? Jean Lafitte? None of them come close to the exploits of Ching Shih, aka Zheng Sao, Hsi Kai, or Shi Yang, depending on the historical source. She terrorized the South China Seas in the first half of the 1800’s–a time when Chinese women had fewContinue reading “History’s Greatest Pirate was the Pirate Queen”
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Why China’s Boxer Rebellion Sounds Familiar
By start of the 1900’s, China had lost a number of humiliating wars with Japan, Russia and other European powers. It fought to resist foreign armies, but lacked a modern military, and suffered millions of casualties. China’s Qing Dynasty was forced to accept humiliating foreign control over the Empire’s economy, as well as an influxContinue reading “Why China’s Boxer Rebellion Sounds Familiar”