FORMOSA FILES PODCAST S4-E3: The 1973 Qijin Ferry Tragedy - 旗津渡輪
Twenty-five young women and girls drowned after a severely overloaded ferry capsized in 1973. The deaths spurred changes in public transport safety in Kaohsiung, and the victims became part of a social debate over women's rights.
Cover (left) shows the original graves of the women and girls who died in the 1973 sinking of a ferry crossing the harbor from Qijin (Cijin) Island (The Cemetery of Twenty-five Ladies 二十五淑女墓 via Wikimedia Commons) Cover Right: A report from Taiwan’s Central Daily News on September 4, 1973. “On the morning of September 3, 1973, the ‘Gao Zhong No. 6" transportation ship, which was only allowed to carry 30 passengers, violated the regulations. The ship was carrying 73 passengers. The cabin and outside were full of passengers, and there were even passengers standing on the top of the ship.”
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The Formosa Files podcast is sponsored by the FRANK CHEN FOUNDATION (陳啟川先生文教基金會)
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This top-rated history podcast tells stories from the history of Formosa (Taiwan) from circa 1600 C.E. - 2000 C.E., via interesting, lesser-known short stories presented in a non-chronological order.
HOSTS: John Ross is an author and co-founder of publisher Camphor Press, which specializes in books on Taiwan and China in English, while Eryk Michael Smith has worked as a writer and journalist for multiple media outlets in Taiwan, including the island's only English-language radio station ICRT (FM 100.7). Both Ross and Smith have lived in Taiwan for well over 20 years and call the island home.
