"Afterlife", a 2006 OEL graphic novel, depicts Ching Shih as a guardian who fights demons to protect the denizens of the underworld.In "The Wake of the Lorelei Lee", book 8 of L.A. Meyer's "Bloody Jack" series, Jacky is captured by Ching Shih and so impresses her that the pirate bestows her with a tattoo of a dragon on the back of her neck to indicate she is under Shih's protection.