Chow Yun-fat is starring in the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean as Chinese pirate Sao Feng. (Whose name refers to the classical Chinese poem: “The Asian market, he whispered/at a board meeting for Disney/how best to capture it/hire a Chinese guy/said the marketing rep softly.”) Piracy in China has a long, long history. Koxinga was a famous example (though his dad was more of the pirate.) And pirate crews operating along China’s coast in the 16th and 17th centuries could be surprisingly multi-cultural affairs with mixed crews of Chinese, Malays, Japanese, Europeans, and even escaped African slaves. AP has the story on the new flick along with some other interesting fun facts on 19th century piracy around the island of Lantau. (Though the line between “pirate” and “opium smuggler” on 19th century Lantau was probably razor thin, for AP’s purposes, “pirate” sounds cooler than “drug dealer.”) Global Voices Online looks at Cambodian scholar Keng Vannsak’s recent remarks during a radio interview that have sparked a historical controversy in the Southeast Asian nation. Keng argues that 12th-century King Jayavarman VII, a famous Buddhist sage-king in Khmer history, was actually “an utterly ruthless monarch” whose devotion to building temples