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Ching Shih

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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What Is the Meaning of Her Birth Name?

No one is even very clear what her actual birth name was. She appears for the first time in the records at around the age of 20, where she is working as a prostitute in a floating brothel. The place where she pops up in history is called a flower boat, more commonly known as a brothel. There were 8,000 brothels in that area. This is huge business.

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