摘要

扬帆起航，乘风破浪，驰骋在广阔的大海上，寻找遗失的宝藏。海盗在人们眼里总是充满了神秘色彩。海盗惊心动魄的浪漫与冒险之旅也是很多人心中的梦想，并成为艺术家们的创作源泉，诞生了很多不朽的作品。海盗几千年前就有，而16世纪成为中英两国海盗活动高涨的一个黄金时段，国内外对中英的海盗研究也可谓硕果累累。不过对二者进行专门性比较研究的著述却很少。而事实上，两国的海盗活动是存在一定联系的，将两国的海盗进行对比也是能说明一定问题的。
本文将结合中英海盗活动的历史背景和社会基础，对比研究16世纪中英的海盗活动，包括两国海盗的构成和性格对比，政府对海盗活动的态度对比，以及海盗活动对两国历史进程的影响对比。目的在于尝试从一个新的角度审视中英两国在这段时间发展差异的因素，为研究两国的近代文化提供一个新的方向。

关键词：16世纪，中英海盗，构成，性格，影响 

Abstract

Setting sail, riding the winds and breaking the waves, and wandering on the vast sea finding the lost treasure, Pirates always seem to be full of mystery in people's eyes. Their soul-stirring adventures are also the dreams of many people and become the source of many literary and artistic creations. Pirates already existed since several thousand years ago and 16th century becomes a golden period of pirate activities in Britain and China. About the pirates of the two countries, there are a lot of researches home and abroad. But the comparative study of the two countries' pirates in the 16th century is very rare. In fact, their pirate activities do have some connection. And a comparative study can also explain some problems.
This thesis will combine the historical background and social base to do a comparative study of the pirate activities of Britain and China in the 16th century, including the comparison of the constitution and characters of the pirates of these two countries, the comparison of the governments' attitudes to the activities and the comparison of the influence of the activities to the two countries' history courses.
The purpose of this thesis lies in trying to form a new perspective to find the factors of the development differences of the two countries during this period and to provide a new direction of their modern culture study.

Key words: 16th century, Britain, China, pirates, constitution, characters, influences

1    Introduction
“Pirates” this phenomenon started with the emergence of the ancient navigation. In Chinese history, the earliest piracy can be traced back to Xia and Shang period when Dongyi people went to sea to escape the war. Until Yongchu period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Bolu rose in revolt against the official which declared that pirates formally ascended the stage of history. In the later dynasties, piracy intensified, culminating in the late Ming Dynasty.