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Hey everyone, Las La Montgomery here with another episode from the bottomless bucket of interesting topics from Chinese history,

Jiang Shur today, also known as Jiang Yisao.

Over the past six years this topic has been requested

numerous times and right in the middle of researching this episode I received yet

another email request. This one from Timur, asking me,

when the heck am I ever going to cover this little known anti-hero from the mid-Ching

dynasty? In this episode, I'm going to focus on the life of Jiang Yisao, but I also hope to offer up the bigger

picture of what else was going on as far as piracy in the South China Sea during this period

in the late 18thth early 19th century.

You know in our day at least here in the US the whole notion of piracy, pirates has been so softened up and distorted by decades of Disney, Hollywood, and plain old American

mass culture doing its thing.

These pirates were nothing like Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow character.

The brutal truth about pirates, and certainly this is the case of the Haightau-Who sailed to South China Sea, was that they prayed without mercy on anyone and everyone

who called their home the coastal areas from Jejiang to Guangdong provinces and all the

way down the coast of Vietnam.

The local inhabitants, when they saw them coming, would just sprint for the hills.

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