镜头里的亚裔民权运动

SEAS OF MEMORY
84M ore than a hundred years
after the sinking of the
Titanic, and two-billion-
dollar’s worth of tears at
the box office from James
Cameron’s film adaptation, a small
rescue team sets out again to salvage
from the wreck of this tragedy.
Only this time the excavation takes
place not on an ocean floor but in the
depths of archives and family histories,
and the mission’s target is a piece of
the past forgotten from one of the 20th
century’s most renowned disasters.
In The Six, researcher and author
Steven Schwankert and director
Arthur Jones search for traces of the
six Chinese survivors of the ill-fated
ocean liner that sank off the coast of
Newfoundland on April 15, 1912. The
journey takes them across the US,
China, the UK, and Canada, guided
by one single third-class ticket crowded
with eight Chinese-sounding names
which Schwankert, a maritime history
enthusiast, had discovered during
routine research into the Titanic.
Together, Schwankert and Jones pore
over questions: Who were they? How
did six out of the eight survive? Where
were they headed in life? How is almost
no one aware that there were Chinese
passengers on the ship, while other
Titanic survivors have been celebrated
worldwide?
These questions string together
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Issue 3 /2021Yiming, Weiming,
and Muling (from left
to right) on the boat back to Weiming’s
island hometown
Chinese passengers’ names were transliterated
phonetically, making their identities hard to verify Copyright ©博看网. All Rights Reserved.
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