Battle of 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 downtown Shanghai, a devastating aerial bombardment on defenseless civilians that shocked the world. "Bloody Saturday," as it came to be known, saw two bombings in crowded civilian areas: first, the bombs hit the ...
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