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#241 - Ming 28: Wokou! Wokou! A Pirate's Life For Me!
#241 - Ming 28: Wokou! Wokou! A Pirate's Life For Me!
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40 minutes
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Sep 25, 2022
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We're rascals and scoundrels, we're villains and knaves.We're devils and black sheep, we're really bad eggs.We're beggars and blighters and ne'er do-well cads,Aye, but we're loved by our mommies and dads,Stand up me hearties, yo ho!Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me!Time Period Covered:ca. 1521-1550 CE Sources Cited:Andrade, Tonio and Xing Hang. “Introduction: The East Asian Maritime Realm in Global History: 1500-1700” in Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1500-1700.Chin, James K. “Merchants, Smugglers, and Pirates: Multinational Clandestine Trade on the South China Coast, 1520-50” in Elusive pirates, pervasive smugglers: violence and clandestine trade in the Greater China Seas.Geiss, James. “The Chia-ching reign, 1522-1566” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part I.Laver, Michael. “Neither Here nor There: Trade, Piracy, and the ‘Space Between’ in Early Modern East Asia” in Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1500-1700.Petrucci, Maria Grazia. “Pirates, Gunpowder, and Christianity in Late Sixteenth-Century Japan” in Elusive pirates, pervasive smugglers: violence and clandestine trade in the Greater China Seas.Wills, John E. “Maritime China from Wang Chih to Shih Lang: Themes In Peripheral History” in From Ming to Ch’ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sep 25, 2022
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