The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a

In the waters around China, the "golden age of piracy" stretched for nearly three centuries from the mid-sixteenth to early-nineteenth centuries. Over those yea

Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates—both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond—compiled by the New York Times bests

The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796-1820 CE) has occupied an awkward position in studies of China's last dynasty, the Qing. Conveniently marking a watershed betw

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.