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influential female Chinese pirate

Wokou (; ; Hepburn: ; ; literal Chinese translation: "dwarf bandits"), which translates to "Japanese pirates", were pirates who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th century to the 17th century. The wokou were made of various ethnicities of East Asian ancestry, which varied over time and raided the mainland from islands in the Sea of Japan and East China Sea.

Chinese merchant, pirate, admiral (1604-1661)

son of Koxinga (1642-1681)

General serving warlord Sun Quan (died c. 220)

18th- and 19th-century Chinese naval officer and former pirate

Limahong, Lim Hong, or Lin Feng (Teochew , :, : ), well known as Ah Hong (Teochew , : , : ) or Lim-A-Hong or Limahon (Teochew , :, : ), was a Chinese pirate and warlord who invaded the northern Philippines in 1574. He built up a reputation for his constant raids to ports in Guangdong, Fujian and southern China. He is noted to have twice attempted, and failed, to invade the Spanish city of Manila in 1574. He succeeded in invading a portion of Pangasinan, but was later repelled by reinforcements.

Ming-dynasty Teochew pirate

Chinese merchant

Chinese pirate (died 1556)

Battle of Manila

1574 battle between the Chinese pirate warlord Limahong and the Spanish

Qing dynasty person

Chinese pirate and naval commander (1906–1982)

king of Palembang in Srivijaya

Shap-ng-tsai () was a Chinese pirate active in the South China Sea from about 1845 to 1859. He was one of the two most notorious South China Sea pirates of the era, along with Chui A-poo. He commanded about 70 junks stationed at Dianbai, about 180 miles west of Hong Kong. Coastal villages and traders paid Shap-ng-tsai protection money so they would not be attacked. Chinese naval ships that pursued the pirate were captured and their officers taken captive and held for ransom. The Chinese government offered him a pardon and the rank of officer in the military at first he did not accept, but he e