“China’s Titanic” (1949) & The Cruise That Ended in Cremation (1994) - S5-E11

Often called “China’s Titanic,” the 1949 sinking of
the Taiping claimed over 1,000 lives as desperate
refugees fled Shanghai for Taiwan. Forty-five years later,
another tragedy struck: 24 Taiwanese tourists were brutally
murdered during a pleasure cruise on China’s Qiandao Lake. The
deaths and the clumsy, heartless Chinese cover-up caused outrage
in Taiwan. In this episode, Formosa Files is revisiting two
haunting shipping disasters that reveal the human cost of war,
exile, and political mistrust across the Taiwan
Strait.  





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