SCMP presents Literary Editor Charmaine Chan, in conversation with authors worldwide about their craft and their books. In this episode she speaks to Hong Kong-based author Larry Feign about The Flower Boat Girl, his historical novel about pirate queen Cheng Yat Sou. Blackbeard has nothing on this Tanka boat woman, who was sold into sexual slavery as a child and kidnapped by the man she ended up marrying. At the height of her power, she commanded 1,800 ships and 80,000 pirates. 

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