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

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

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

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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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