http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/Alice-Wang xx http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2009/09/06/Chick-Lit-and-Chinese-Pirates-Latest-Book-Picks <!--paging_filter--><p><em><strong><img width="250" height="249" align="left" src="/files/u61320/200909BookRevChinesePirateswebs.jpg" />I Sailed With Chinese Pirates</strong></em><strong> <br /> by Aleko Lilius</strong><br /> <br /> The Pearl River Delta in the 1920s was a lawless place, with bands of pirates hijacking ships, kidnapping villagers, and extorting money from fishing fleets &ndash; when they weren&rsquo;t hiding out in opium dens and gambling houses in Macau. In those days, when &ldquo;adventurer&rdquo; was still considered a profession, Finnish-American Aleko Lilius described his dramatic journey aboard a heavily armed pirate junk and his imprisonment in a Hong Kong jail.</p><p><a href="http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2009/09/06/Chick-Lit-and-Chinese-Pirates-Latest-Book-Picks">read more</a></p> http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2009/09/06/Chick-Lit-and-Chinese-Pirates-Latest-Book-Picks#comments Alice Wang Books Echo Yu Minfong Ho Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:00:00 +0800 thebeijinger 586828 at http://www.thebeijinger.com