
Ching Shih
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
The Portuguese Admirals Treatment of Ching-Posai
The emperor's representative wanted to have the symbolic moment where Ching-she and Ching-Posai bowed before him, and they were not on board with that. So what happened and said was, legally, their parent-son relationship was dissolved,. And they were married by this representative, and as part of that ceremony, they bowed. That's very diplomatic. It is very. They got the bow. 12 years after their surrender, Cheng Po Tsai, who had risen really rapidly in the ranks of the navy, died supposedly of natural causes. And so he's out of the picture. She retired from ocean work at 35, the richest possible human that you can imagine.
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