The Pirate Queen Zheng Yi Sao With Larry Feign
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Laszlo is pleased to present an interview with longtime Hong Kong resident, writer, and cartoonist Larry Feign to discuss his new novel "The Flower Boat Girl". The story is about Zheng Yi Sao, who was one of the most feared pirates in the early 19th century, and at one point, had command of a fleet of over 1,500 ships. Her life was the subject of Episode 174 of The China History Podcast, and in this episode we take another look at her astonishing life, this time with Mr. Feign's expertise on the subject. Larry's book is hot off the press and now available everywhere, for more info, visit https://piratequeenbook.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to a special CHP episode. We're looking forward to this one for a while. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm pleased to invite onto this long-running family program, Mr. Larry Fein, |
| 0:09.8 | who is a new book out, as they say in the biz. |
| 0:12.8 | Covering a subject I featured back in 2016, CHP 174 on the pirate queen, Jung Yisau. |
| 0:20.2 | Larry Fein's new book is called The Flower Boat Girl. From Top Floor Books, |
| 0:25.0 | it's been out in Hong Kong for a little while and is now available globally. |
| 0:29.3 | I read it and I can't wait to talk about it. Mr. Larry Fein, all the way from Lantau Island |
| 0:34.9 | in the Hong Kong SAR. Welcome to the China History Podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | Thank you. I'm very happy to be here. |
| 0:42.4 | Listen, before we start, I just want to mention this quickly. You know, back in the 1990s, |
| 0:46.5 | when I was living in Hong Kong, I took the bus every morning to my, for my mid-levels flat, |
| 0:51.6 | to my office in Tokuawaan. And as soon as I got to the Star Ferry on the Jim Sa Joy side, |
| 0:57.6 | I'd buy a South China morning post. And as soon as I was seated on the 5C bus, |
| 1:03.3 | I'd go straight to the world a lily-wong, and read your reward-winning comic strip for that |
| 1:08.3 | daily irreverent look at Hong Kong families and society. And all those years in Hong Kong, |
| 1:14.3 | I never met you, but I still have my copy of Aiyah on my bookshelf somewhere. And here I am, |
| 1:22.0 | a quarter-century later, featuring you as a guest on my, my little China History Podcast program. |
| 1:28.9 | Well, Janda Fadala. So nice to have you here. So just in case, no one in our listening audience ever |
| 1:36.6 | stooped to catch a listen of my CHP 174 episode on Zhang Yi Sao, let's start off by introducing |
| 1:45.6 | who she was. She was actually the most powerful pirate in history, but she didn't start out that way. |
| 1:54.0 | She started out as a, from what I can tell, as a fisherman's daughter, who ended up working the flower |
| 2:01.7 | boats in Guangzhou. Flower boats were floating brothels, which were very common in China, in most |
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