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Oct 28, 2021 · Fang Lang, aka Wing Sun Fong, was a survivor of the Titanic who moved to Chicago and worked in Chinatown. Later that evening, his son began looking for passenger lists online and found their last ...
Jun 4, 2021 · The last Chinese survivor, Fang Lang, was found clinging to a piece of wood floating in the ocean. His story was almost immortalized in the 1997 “Titanic” film. A deleted scene from the movie shows a crewmember in a lifeboat returning to find a Chinese man floating on a door in the freezing water, surrounded by dead bodies.
Apr 23, 2021 · A new documentary, "The Six," looks at how their lives unfolded after the tragedy. NPR's Emily Feng reports from Beijing. EMILY FENG, BYLINE: For more than a century, the six Chinese survivors of ...
Apr 16, 2021 · Tom Fong, the son of Fang Lang, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin nearly half a century after the Titanic sinking. The family's last name has various spellings in English.
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Apr 18, 2018 · The film’s chief researcher, Steven Schwankert, told the South China Morning Post that his team hopes to set the record straight and address the attitudes that obscured the fate of the six travelers. “Six Chinese guys made it off the Titanic alive and 24 hours later were written out of the story,” Schwankert said. “That wasn’t an ...
Jul 17, 2018 · Lee Bing, Fang Lang, Chang Chip, Ah Lam, Chung Foo, Ling Hee, Lee Ling, and Len Lam were third-class passengers who were all listed on a single ticket when they booked passage on the Titanic. They had been working on cargo ships between China and Europe and, like most of the other third-class passengers, were probably determined to start a new ...
May 19, 2021 · Tom Fong’s father, Fang Lang, survived the Titanic after clinging to a piece of wood. Lang is one of six other Chinese men who made if off the unsinkable ship. Lang’s story is what James Cameron used as inspiration for Kate Winslet's charter's finale rescue scene. His son only heard about a shipwreck from other family members and could ...
