Weng Hao of Jiangsu competes during the men's pommel horse final of gymnastics at 13th Chinese National Games in north China's Tianjin Municipality Derek Barnett Jersey , Sept. 6, 2017. Weng Hao claimed the title with 15.200 points.(XinhuaYue Yuewei)
Autumn scenery of Hunhe River in N China's Hohhot
Villagers air harvests in south China
Dew drops seen on plant leaves in east China
Fish Dish Festival celebrated in C China's Hunan
Rice in NE China enters harvest season
Salt fields enter into harvest season in China's Liaoning
2017 Red Bull Air Race to be held in Portugal
In pics: papercuttings made by 103-year-old woman
" "
LONDON, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- This is a little known fact that eight Chinese passengers were on the legendary liner Titanic when it perished in 1912 and six of them survived.
Now a new documentary, The Six, made by a British director, is going to tell the story of the Chinese survivors.
Arthur Jones, a professional documentary director from Yorkshire Fletcher Cox Jersey , told Xinhua from his Shanghai studio Tuesday, that after he learnt the information about Chinese survivors almost two years ago from his friend Steven Schwankert, a U.S. maritime historian, he decided to make the documentary to tell the world about who the six Chinese survivors are, how they survived and why they vanished from the records.
""Out of over 700 survivors of the Titanic disaster, the six Chinese people were the only ones who never told their stories,"" said Jones Zach Ertz Jersey , who has been living and working in China for over 20 years.
According to the historical evidence and accounts that Jones' team have collected, all the eight Chinese men had previously worked on cargo ships travelling between China and Europe. They boarded the Titanic in England on a single ticket listing eight names, working as stokers and staying in the third-class cabin.
When the giant ship struck an iceberg, the men tried to escape with their own survival skills. Five of the six survivors boarded lifeboats, while the sixth one was found floating on a door and luckily picked up by a lifeboat that returned to search for survivors.
However, when the six survivors finally arrived in the United States, the discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act Nick Foles Jersey , which was in force at the time, forced them to leave the country within 24 hours. Since then the Chinese survivors were disappearing from history books.
Their absence has left some questions unanswered, including a claim that they were stowaways on lifeboats. Jones and his research team believed this rumor was out of racist background and full of injustice.
""We visited a large number of foreign archives and museums, worked with historians from the United States and China, searched and studied many evidence,"" Jones said. ""There is no single evidence to prove the Chinese survivors were stowaways. I believe they did not do anything dishonourable.""
Schwankert, the maritime historian Dallas Goedert Jersey , who is now also the film-maker of the documentary, said the Chinese survivors' story is not of cowardice as the Western media unfairly portrayed more than one century ago, but actually one of courage and of quick thinking.
""We don't accept the reports and the history as it is presented. The six Chinese men have been put into a position of injustice for more than a hundred years. We can finally tell their story rightly,"" he told Xinhua.
In order to trace the descendants of the survivors, Jones and his team went to the United States, Britain, Canada Carson Wentz Jersey , Cuba and other countries.
""We do find the descendants of some of them, and they welcome us to confirm the identity of their predecessors,"" Jones said.
The documentary, scheduled to be released next year, has drawn investment from Chinese and foreign companies.
The British passenger liner Titanic, the largest ship afloat at the time, sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of April 15 Josh Sweat Jersey , 1912, after it collided with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard the ship, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history.
James Cameron's 1997 film Titanic has led to a huge surge of Chinese interest in the doomed liner.
Night view of 9th BRICS summit host city Xiamen
Water volume of Hukou Waterfall surges due to heavy rainfall
Tropical Storm Harvey breaks rainfall record in U.S. mainland
Artisans make lanterns for upcoming Mid-Autumn Day in Singapore
China's Discovery ROV collects samples in western Pacific Ocean
World Robot Conference attracts visitors in Beijing
At least 2 died, 8 injured in knife attack in Turku Avonte Maddox Jersey , Finland
13 killed, over 100 others injured in Barcelona attack: official
" Emily Fridlund poses with her book History of Wolves during a photocall at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Britain, on Oct. 16, 2017, one day ahead of the announcement of the winning book of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Six novelists have been shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a literary prize awarded for the best original novel in English. (XinhuaRay Tang) George Saunders poses with his book Lincoln in the Bardo during a photocall at the Royal Festival Hall in London Wholesale Philadelphia Eagles Jerseys , Britain, on Oct. 16, 2017, one day ahead of the announcement of the winning book of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Six novelists have been shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a literary prize awarded for the best original novel in English. (XinhuaRay Tang) Paul Auster poses with his book 4321 during a photocall at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Britain, on Oct. 16 Wholesale Eagles Jerseys , 2017, one day ahead of the announcement of the winning book of the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Six novelists have been shortlisted for the 2017 Man. Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NCAA Jerseys Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys Cheap Football Jerseys Cheap Soccer Jerseys Online Cheap College Football Jerseys Cheap Custom Soccer Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale Football Jerseys Cheap NBA Basketball Jerseys
The Wall