Chui A-poo

{{Short description|Chinese pirate}}

{{family name hatnote|Chui (徐)|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox pirate

|name = Chui A-poo

|native_name = {{nobold|徐亞保}}

|native_name_lang = zh-hk

|birth_date =

|death_date = 1851

|image = Chui A-poo.jpg

|image_size = 225px

|caption =

|nickname =

|type = Pirate

|birth_place = Stanley, Hong Kong

|death_place = Victoria Prison, British Hong Kong

|serviceyears = mid-1800s

|base of operations = South China Sea

|rank = fleet commander

|commands = 50 ship Chinese fleet

}}

File:Destruction of Chuiapoo's Pirate Fleet, 30 September 1849, by Nam-Sing BHC0632.jpg

Chui A-pooAlso spelt Chui-Apoo. ({{zh|c=徐亞保}};Piracy & the world of Zhang Baozai : first anniversary exhibition at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, 2006. p.36 {{ISBN|988-98611-3-5}} died 1851) was a 19th-century Qing Chinese pirate who commanded a fleet of more than 50 junks in the South China Sea.{{citation|surname1=Grace Estelle Fox|title=British Admirals and Chinese Pirates, 1832-1869 |publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.|location=London|year=1940|at=pp. 107|language=de}} He was one of the two most notorious South China Sea pirates of the era, along with Shap Ng-tsai.Martin Booth. Opium: A History. New York: Thomas Dunne, 1996. p. 143. {{ISBN|978-0-312-20667-3}}

In September 1849, his fleet, which was based in Bias Bay east of Hong Kong, was defeated by British and Chinese warships.{{cite book|author=Tim Travers|title=Pirates: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4g7AwAAQBAJ&q=tonkin+pirates&pg=PA53|date=30 May 2012|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7524-8827-1|pages=53–}} More than 400 pirates were killed and Chui was seriously wounded.

Although he managed initially to escape, he was betrayed by his own crew and handed over to the British authorities. He was wanted with a bounty of £500{{citation|title=The Chinese Repository: From January to December 1849 |publisher=Adamant Media|year=2005|at=pp. 667|isbn=1-4021-5159-4|language=de|id=Unabridged translation of the Cantonese original}} for the murder of two British officers.{{citation|surname1=Christopher Munn|title=Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong |publisher=Routledge|location=London|year=2001|at=pp. 205|isbn=0-7007-1298-4|language=de}} His punishment was lifelong exile to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), but he hanged himself in his cell before it could be carried out.{{citation|surname1=Solomon Bard|title=Voices from the Past: Hong Kong 1842-1918 |publisher=Hong Kong University Press|location=Hong Kong|year=2002|at=pp. 28|isbn=962-209-574-7|language=de}}