The Bloody Saturday Walking Tour – Shanghai – 17/9/17

Tickets are selling fast for the Penguin China/Bespoke Shanghai Bloody Saturday walking tour on Sunday 17th September. It’ll probably only happen once this year and it’s brilliant that Shanghai veteran tours guide and historian Peter Hibbard has agreed to lead it. It’s already  Time Out Shanghai Pick of the Month event for September and, as they say, a great way to connect with the city’s history and see Shanghai through new eyes.

More details on tickets here

the ebook is available here on Amazon.co.uk

There’s a short video about the book and the day itself here

Time Out Shanghai says…

On 14 August 1937, accidental bombs rained down on Shanghai’s streets and obliterated parts of the Bund, Nanjing Road and the French Concession; caused by Chinese fighter planes that inadvertently missed their targets when defending against Japanese gunboats. The incident killed thousands of civilians and injured scores more. In his new short book Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day, author Paul French (Midnight in Peking) reconstructs eyewitness accounts from that fateful day.

In collaboration with French and Penguin Books, Bespoke Shanghai revisits the events of that day in a one-off walking tour. The walk – led by UK-based writer Peter Hibbard, the former President of the Royal Asiatic Society and an expert on Shanghai’s concession-era history – will take visitors to some of the sites where the worst destruction was caused, including the former Great World Building, with evocative stories that will give you a newfound appreciation for Shanghai’s history.