her life has all the elements necessary for a movie - an unlikely "alternative" protagonist, a rags to riches storyline, real swashbuckling action, and plenty of saucy bits!
what are the chances that i'd actually see a reference to this in a book erroneously "condemned" to the pulp bin by unaware library assistants? but indeed, a semi-fictionalised story of "The Widow Ching, Pirate" was found in a collection of short fictions by Borges...
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and how in the world did you chance upon it??!!! did you like decide one evening to type 'female pirates' and see what turns up? =P
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"Fleets sent by the Chinese Imperial Navy to destroy the pirates were themselves destroyed. By 1808 they had lost 63 vessels to the pirates."
The Internet is gorgeously random. Literally, a row of dots, flowing through the Universe.
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but indeed, a semi-fictionalised story of "The Widow Ching, Pirate" was found in a collection of short fictions by Borges...
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- zilch
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