Jiangya

China's Titanic

Jiangya
Steven Schwankert
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Paperback
h216 x 140mm - 240pg
1 Dec 2020 HK
9789887963943
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History forgot one of the world' s worst maritime disasters. Until now. SS Jiangya sailed past Shanghai' s famous Bund on a December night, hours before an explosion would claim more lives than Titanic. The cause of that explosion and loss of life remained a mystery to the present day. Through interviews with survivors and descendants, original Chinese archival research, and examination of eyewitness testimony, Jiangya: China' s Titanic solves the history of the sinking, determines a final death toll, and shows the lives still touched by its loss. Finally, the full story of one of the world' s worst shipwrecks can be told.
Steven Schwankert is an award-winning writer with more than 20 years of experience in Greater China, focusing on exploration, culture, media and technology. His book "Poseidon: China' s Secret Salvage of Britain' s Lost Submarine" was published in 2013. "Beijing & Shanghai," a guidebook he co-wrote, is now in its third edition. His book "The Six," about the Chinese survivors of the Titanic, will be published in 2021. Steven is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society, and founded SinoScuba, Beijing' s first professional scuba diving operator in 2003. In 2007, he led the first-ever scientific expedition to dive Mongolia' s Lake Khovsgol, where he and his team found two wooden shipwrecks. He is an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst' s Asian Languages department, and received his Master' s in journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1995. He divides his time between Beijing and the New Jersey Shore.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9789887963943
Published: 1 Dec 2020
Published In: Hong Kong
Imprint: Blacksmith Books
Publisher: Blacksmith Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 240

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