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Cheng I Sao - Pirate Queen - Extra History (Patreon)

Published:
2018-01-26 18:30:01
Edited:
2018-05-15 01:58:12
Imported:
2022-01

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She was the most ferocious pirate China had ever known. She was a powerful fleet commander, a sharp businesswoman, and a consummate strategist. She was Cheng I Sao, leader of the Pirate Confederation, and she lived her life on her terms. 

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Cheng I Sao - Pirate Queen - Extra History

She was the most ferocious pirate China had ever known. She was a powerful fleet commander, a sharp businesswoman, and a consummate strategist. She was Cheng I Sao, leader of the Pirate Confederation, and she lived her life on her terms. CORRECTION: This episode's script is brought to you by Rob Rath! Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Play games with us on Extra Play! http://bit.ly/WatchEXP Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Get our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Get the outro music here! http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm

Comments

Anonymous

This is probably a little inaccurate but...YARR! AVAST, ME HEARTIES! At last, EH is doing a Pirate Topic!

Will Weaver

This looks like it’ll be awesome. Can’t wait until I get a chance to watch (currently at work).

Anonymous

Awesome story! I wonder how it would've turned out differently if China could've borrowed Admiral Yi...

Anonymous

cant' wait to watch!!

Ryan Wojciechowski

Best Surprise Episode ever! Prostitute to Pirate to Queen. Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!

Anonymous

Just in time for the sea of thieves beta! In a very piratey mood today

shadowscribble

Awesome lady. Should've hired her to help make their navy's stronger.

Anonymous

It’s always surprising what happens when you pull on the threads of history.

Anonymous

One thing that's worth pointing out here is that while women had a very low status in the eyes of the Qing government, a status that kept getting reduced throughout the dynasty, China is a large place. Parts of southern China, specifically the Fujian province, didn't quite follow this practice. In the later parts of the Qing period, records exist of same sex marriage for women in the province. Provided that one of the women was independently wealthy enough to provide a proper dowry and take care of her prospective wife. And while it probably wasn't common, it does reveal that the prospect of independently wealthy women heading households was just an accepted fact of life in Fujian. This is probably relevant for the story, in that more than any other province, Fujian was the home of Chinese seafaring. Fujian was a fairly poor province, mountainous and with extremely tricky overland travel, to the point that inland Fujian dialects are the most archaic of all Chinese dialects due to isolation. So it made sense for its people to take to the seas, especially with the colonization of Taiwan just across the strait. In turn, the Chinese of Southeast Asia are primarily of Fujianese descent, even more so than the Cantonese you might expect given that Guangdong is further south and has vastly more people. So there would probably be a lot of Fujianese sailors in the pirate fleet who were used to women having more independent status than most Chinese. Also, as a bonus for the roleplayers out there, in Legends of the Wulin, the Southern Dragon Clan is an option for PCs and is clearly based on Cheng I Sao's fleet.

Anonymous

Is this a one episode series like odenathus and the collapse of the Carolingian empire?

Anonymous

Also, it might be worth pointing out that this pirate confederacy was at most the second largest and second most important criminal enterprise in Chinese history. It pales in comparison to the Green Gang of the Republican period. The largest organized crime organization in the history of the world, it numbered 100,000 members in Shanghai alone, it was also what brought Chiang Kai-Shek to power and provided the financial basis for the Republican government of the 1930s. They were still gangsters reliant on drugs, prostitution, gambling and similarly typical gangster activities.

Anonymous

Love that episode references old series. Can't you do Takeda Shingen or/and Uesugi Kenshin? Pleaase...

Anonymous

holy crap; I wanted this episode so bad.

Anonymous
>>9725737

maybe Chiang should get an episode; such a corrupt dictator that no-one (in America) knows about.

Anonymous
>>9724846

maybe we need a Mulan episode too; no Eddie Murphy dragons however.

Anonymous

So this was a topic I suggested a really long time ago while playing AC Black Flag!

Lamont Stewart

I need to rewatch the Opium Wars Series but does this take place around the same time frame as that series?

Anonymous
>>9728319

It says near the end. The first Opium War was 29 years after Cheng I Sao went legit. Which is to say that this video takes place in 1809 and 1810, while the first Opium War was in 1839.

Kakirtog, the Charr in gold

Feminist Frequency also did a piece on her, though I think they called her Ching Shih.

Anonymous

No doubting her talent, but a pretty unpleasant talent it was. A highly organised bunch of terrorists and hoodlums. Think Bai Ling would have done well to have cut off the snake’s head while he had the chance to do so in Canton.

Anonymous

Oh hell yes.

Anonymous

Yessssss! This has been on my list!

Anonymous

Beautiful work

ExtraCredits
>>9724304

Oh, I am definitely planning to repost this for when we get around to Sea of Thieves on the Extra Credits Twitch channel!

ExtraCredits
>>9732100

Rob says that's the Mandarin version of her name and the more common one--we went with the Cantonese variation. --Belinda

ExtraCredits
>>9738443

Pirate stories are definitely a double-edged sword, especially with the narrative-driven approach we always take for these videos by setting up a protagonist/antagonist situation. Pop culture portrayals like Disney's "Pirates" movies haven't really helped either--we all want to be the badasses but it's easy to forget that the "badasses" did some legitimately bad things too. --Belinda

Anonymous

This was a great story!

Bill Lemmond

Well, she was a very impressive person. Too bad her effects on the world around her were so destructive.