Out of the eight Chinese passengers aboard the ship, six survived the disaster that occurred off the coast of Newfoundland on April 15, 1912 . While the RMS Titanic left a lasting cultural legacy, the fate of its wealthiest passengers discussed in news and entertainment media, the history of the ship’s Chinese passengers has remained largely hidden. “There is no single [piece of] evidence to prove the Chinese survivors were stowaways [on the lifeboats]. “The press at the time labeled the Chinese survivors, referred to in places as ‘celestials,’ as cowards who dressed as women to sneak into lifeboats,” Schwankert told Quartz. The six Chinese men have been put into a position of injustice for more than a hundred years.

Source: Huffington Post April 18, 2018 22:41 UTC