Searching for the six Chinese survivors of the ‘Titanic’
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Arthur Jones and Steven Schwankert about their documentary The Six. The film, directed by Jones and produced by James Cameron, focuses on Schwankert’s search for the six Chinese men who survived the sinking of the Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912. Tracing the fate of the men takes Schwankert from New York’s Chinatown to the dells of Wisconsin, from Canada to Australia, and from England to Guangdong Province. What his team discovers is the moving story of racial prejudice, the Chinese immigrant experience, and profound personal bravery. Originally scheduled to be released last year shortly after we taped, The Six is now finally out in Chinese theaters, with U.S. release dates to be announced. It marks the second collaboration between Jones and Schwankert — we discussed their earlier film, The Poseidon Project, with Schwankert on this program in 2014.
5:12: The journey from conception to completion of the film
14:21: The cultural significance of the Titanic in China
26:46: What were the survivors doing on the Titanic?
46:01: A story of immigration and the Chinese experience
Recommendations:
Jeremy: The South African news website Daily Maverick.
Arthur: Two documentaries: Still Tomorrow, by Fan Jian, and Sleep Furiously, by Gideon Koppel.
Steven: Menno Moto: A Journey Across the Americas in Search of My Mennonite Identity, by Cameron Dueck, and Confucius and Opium: China Book Reviews, by Isham Cook.
Kaiser: The comedy television series The Good Place.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks. We've got a great show for you this week that we taped back in mid-April of 2020 |
| 0:05.3 | when the pandemic was still in its relatively early stages, and we thought that the film that |
| 0:11.0 | Jeremy and I discussed with our two guests was just about to be released. Obviously, COVID had |
| 0:16.3 | other ideas. That didn't happen. Along the way, we have, obviously, COVID had other ideas, and that didn't happen along the way we have obviously COVID had other ideas and that didn't |
| 0:24.5 | happen though at long last it has been released in China and it is doing fantastically well |
| 0:30.3 | there please stay tuned for release dates for outside of China there's been no date set yet for |
| 0:35.8 | the US but as soon as COVID or territory |
| 0:39.1 | sales allow there will be an announcement and we will keep you up to date. Meanwhile, enjoy the show. |
| 0:51.3 | Welcome to the Cynical podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina. |
| 1:01.1 | SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the important news coming out of China with our indispensable daily newsletter, website, and growing range of podcasts and videos. |
| 1:10.6 | It's a feast of business, political, and cultural range of podcasts and videos. |
| 1:10.8 | It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping |
| 1:15.1 | the world. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm Kaiser Guell, coming to you today from my guilt-inducingly genteel lockdown in Chapel |
| 1:21.0 | Hill, North Carolina. |
| 1:22.5 | Joining me from stately Goldhorn Manor in the woodlands of southwestern Nashville, Tennessee, is Jeremy Goldcorn, |
| 1:29.0 | whose woolly continents is one of the first things I see in the morning when we do our daily |
| 1:33.0 | team video called Jeremy, man. Greet the people. Well, hello there, Kaiser, and hello listeners. How are you doing? |
| 1:38.5 | I am doing very well. I am, yeah, stuck in the holler, All dressed up and nowhere to go up. |
| 1:45.0 | It's not too bad. |
| 1:51.9 | I've always been working remotely, so here I am again, working remotely. |
| 1:55.6 | Arthur Jones, a longtime Shanghai resident and documentary filmmaker, |
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