Steven Schwankert
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Steven Schwankert

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Steven Schwankert is an award-winning writer and editor with 25 years of experience in Greater China, focusing on exploration, technology, and culture. He is the co-creator of "The Six," a book and documentary project about the Chinese passengers aboard RMS Titanic. His book, "Poseidon: China's Secret Salvage of Britain's Lost Submarine" was published in 2013 by Hong Kong University Press. "Beijing & Shanghai," a guidebook he co-wrote for Hong Kong's Odyssey Publications, is now in its third edition.

Steven is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a fellow and East and South Asia Chapter Chair of The Explorers Club, and founded SinoScuba, Beijing's first professional scuba diving operator. In 2007, he led the first-ever scientific expedition to dive Mongolia's Lake Khovsgol, where he and his team found two wooden shipwrecks from the early 20th century.

Steven's work has been published in world-renowned and regionally-recognized publications including The Asian Wall Street Journal, The South China Morning Post, Billboard, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter. It has also appeared on the Web sites of The New York Times, The Washington Post, PC World, CIO, and MacWorld. He is a former deputy Asia editor for The Hollywood Reporter, former editor of Computerworld Hong Kong, and a former managing editor of asia.internet.com.

He is an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Asian Languages department, and received his Masters in journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1995. Steven splits his time between his native New Jersey and the People's Republic of China.
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    • The Six

    • The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese Survivors
    • By: Steven Schwankert
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-2025
    • Language: English
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