Bloody Saturday Shanghai
Tower of Vice: Shanghai’s Great World
There’s no more notorious symbol of Old Shanghai’s underworld than the pleasure palace that was the Great World—after all, this tiered wedding cake of a building was owned by one of the most powerful gangsters in the city: Huang Jinrong, aka Pockmarked Huang. Read on, for the story: But when the Great World ...
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The Battle of Shanghai: An Illustrated Guide
On August 14 1937, the day after the Battle of Shanghai began, misfired bombs rained death and destruction on civilians in downtown Shanghai. "Bloody Saturday" claimed 2,000 lives in what was then the deadliest aerial bombardment the world had seen, and for the following three months, the Battle of Shanghai ravaged the ...
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