Name: Steven Schwankert, author of THE SIX - an in-person Boswell event
Start: 2025-05-29T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-29T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Boswell Book Company

Steven Schwankert, author of THE SIX - an in-person Boswell event

Steven Schwankert chats about his new history, The Six
About this Event

Boswell welcomes writer, editor, and expedition leader Steven Schwankert for an evening featuring The Six, his new book which offers a moving exploration of the origins and fate of the little-known Chinese passengers aboard the Titanic-and how they survived against all odds. This event is cohosted by the OCA-Wisconsin.

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When RMS Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely seven hundred people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men. Arriving in New York, these six were met with suspicion and slander. Fewer than twenty-four hours later, they were expelled from the country and vanished. When historian Steven Schwankert first stumbled across their story, he couldn’t believe that there could still be untold personal histories from the Titanic. The result of meticulous research, a dogged investigation, and interviews with family members, The Six is an epic journey across continents that reveals the full story of these six forgotten survivors. Their incredible journeys reveal an overlooked, but all-too-common, experience of inequality and discrimination.

Amy Tan says: “Resurrecting forgotten voices from history's most famous shipwreck, Schwankert's meticulous research unveils the harrowing journey of the Chinese Titanic survivors, exposing a deeply human narrative lost to time and prejudice.”

Steven Schwankert is author of Poseidon: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine and Beijing & Shanghai as well as is cocreator of the documentary The Six. Schwankert is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a fellow and East and South Asia Chapter Chair of The Explorers Club, and founded SinoScuba. He led the first-ever scientific expedition to dive Mongolia's Lake Khovsgol, and his writing has appeared in the South China Morning Post, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.