The book opens with Shek Yeung’s husband, Cheng Yat, receiving a mortal injury.
To carry out that wish, Shek Yeung negotiates a marriage to his heir, Cheung Po, with the promise of a son.
Despite the fearsomeness of the historical figure, Chang-Eppig’s Shek Yeung is pensive and passive.
When Shek Yeung disembowels a man, we do not see, hear, feel or smell anything.
Only in the last 100 pages, when the Qing emperor’s pirate hunter, Pak Ling, becomes a credible threat, does Shek Yeung blossom into her namesake and act with vitality and resolve.
Persons:
Rita Chang, Ching Shih, Cheng, Sao, Yeung, Ching, Kuang’s, Bardot, ”, Larry Feign’s, ” Rita Chang, Shek, Cheng Yat, Shek Yeung, Cheung Po, Chang, Pak Ling
Organizations:
AS, SEA, “ Pirates
Locations:
South China, Caribbean