Queen of Pirates: Cheng I Sao

Criminal Broads

Cloud10

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As the 19th century loomed, China experienced a huge boom in piracy—and the largest, most terrifyingly organized fleet that menaced the South China Sea was led by…a woman. Madame Cheng (remembered as Cheng I Sao or Ching Shih) had a meteoric rise from impoverished sex worker to climb to arguably the most successful and influential pirate of all time. Should we cheer her on—or remember her as a criminal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a skin? A crime? Loving you dear life I do. Is this a swine?
0:17.0	Is this a swine, then I'm guilty, guilty of loving you.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Criminal Broads, a true crime podcast about wild women on the wrong
0:36.9	side of the law. I'm Torrey Telfer, you're a faithful correspondent and I am here to tell you
0:41.6	that I am a pirate expert now, or at least more of a pirate expert than I was two weeks ago.
0:47.0	And if you've been paying close attention to the theme of this podcast, you know it's called criminal broads and not criminal blokes
0:54.0	the fact that I just said the word pirate means that yes
0:57.0	we are here today to talk about
0:59.0	that most swashbuckling of Shiro's, the female pirate. But before we get started, a couple things,
1:08.6	couple housekeeping things. Listen, if you like the podcast, I would love if you'd leave a review on iTunes, it really helps
1:15.7	the podcast reach other similarly curious and creepy eyes.
1:21.8	And then if you want to occasionally see photos, I always post photos of these women on
1:26.6	Instagram at criminal broads.
1:28.9	If you have any questions, critiques, suggestions,
1:34.0	please email me criminal broads at gmail.
1:36.0	I do take requests and in fact will be
1:39.0	fulfilling one such request in a couple episodes from now.
1:42.0	Also, next episode is episode 10. such a request in a couple episodes from now.
1:42.8	Also, next episode is episode 10 and I have something big planned.
1:46.2	So stay tuned for that.
1:47.3	But anyway, let's get back to the subject.
1:49.4	Let's get back to the story.
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