Remembering Shanghai’s Bloody Saturday, 1937 – A Zoom on August 12 with Historic Shanghai

Posted: August 7th, 2025 | No Comments »

On this 80th anniversary of WW2 we’re remembering one of the key opening salvos of the global conflict – August 14 1937, the devastating and confused bombing of Shanghai’s downtown districts, at that time the worst aerial carnage the world had seen…. what became known as “Bloody Saturday”

PAUL FRENCH ON BLOODY SATURDAY
Tuesday August 12, 8pm
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We’ll be reconstructing the events of that day from eyewitness accounts, newspapers, and photographs to see what happened when the streets became battlegrounds, the Cathay and the Great World (Da Shijie) took direct hits, how the city and its people responded, and how it changed Shanghai forever and is an integral part of the descent into total global war.

(You can read my Penguin China Special as a Kindle e-book or paperback here….

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