Titanic replica (Sichuan) trademark has been abandoned. James Cameron's 1997 "Titanic" movie enjoys great and lasting popularity in China, and introduced the Chinese masses to the Titanic story. The importance of this movie as a reference point for the Chinese developers is indicated by the fact that actor Bernard Hill, who portrayed Captain Edward Smith in Cameron's film, was present at the launch of the project and was named the "honorary captain" of the vessel to be constructed. The investors behind the Sichuan replica approach the 1912 tragedy primarily as a story of heroic self-sacrifice in the face of disaster. The CEO of
RMS Titanic in popular culture gave a fairly short first-hand account in her posthumously published "Titanic Survivor" (1997). "Carpathia"s 1912 captain, Arthur Rostron, published an account of his own role in his 1931 autobiography "Home from the Sea". Various other authors of the first wave published compilations of news reportage, interviews and survivors' accounts. However, as W. B. Bartlett comments, they were "marked by some journalism of highly suspect and sensationalist variety ... which tell[s] more about the standards of journalistic editorialism at the time than they do about what really happened on the "Titanic"." The British writer Filson Young's book "Titanic", described by Richard