Re: The Real Missee Lee


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Posted by FrankJ on September 05, 2003 at 02:12:57 from 63.164.145.198 user FrankJ.

In Reply to: Re: The Real Missee Lee posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 02, 2003 at 07:48:29:

Thank you, that explains something that has always puzzled me about Missee Lee. The love of learning and Western culture, seem odd in a leader of a group of pirates in the South China Seas-rather like an underworld gang boss wanting to go to Harvard and study Linear A! But if she is a composite of two people, that would help explain it. Madame Sun-Yat Sen I know, loathed the war lords and crime bosses that plauged China till WWII, and here is a person based on her who IS one. If Ransome knew Madame Sun, perhaps he turned to her as the only Chinese lady he knew as a model to fill out the details of this person he had read about.

It is still odd to have a female crime boss in that part of the world-presumably, the various factions of the Three Islands could not agree on a successor to ML's son-less father, and, fearing a gang war, they put her up as a compromise candidate. This interpetation is supported by the
way things are threatning to come apart near the end of ML.



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