Bloody Saturday Anniversary – 1937-2021

The anniversary of Bloody Saturday, August 14th 1937, when bombs rained down on the Shanghai International Settlement and French Concession, the single largest aerial bombardment of a civilian city to date at the time. As it happens the anniversary falls on a Saturday this year. For the 80th anniversary in 2017 I published a Penguin China Special on Bloody Saturday, recreating the day from multiple perspectives built up from memoirs of that awful day. and here is a link to a Q&A i did with That’s Shanghai on the book and the events.