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For many years the pirate confederaion was led and held together by a woman, Shi Yang, a former prostitute from near Canton who became wife of one of the main pirate leaders, bore him two sons, and after her husband's death married her former husband's male lover, bearing a child to him also. Though she more or less retired from the pirates' world after her second hushand's death in 1843, aged sixty-eight, she is still living as a wealthy widow near Canton, and runs a successful gambling house inside the city.
From Jonathan Spence--God's Chinese Son P.82

# Waooooo! How vivid is that story, I shall explore more on this.