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Limited Edition Walking Tour Preview: Bloody Saturday – September 17 2017

Posted: August 14th, 2017 | No Comments »

After origanising any number of walks in Beijing based around my book Midnight in Peking the good people at Bespoke Shanghai are organising a limited edition walk based on my Penguin China Special Bloody Saturday. The book recreates August 14 1937, the day bombs fell on the International Settlement and Frenchtown as death and war came to Shanghai. The walk will hopefully reveal a side to Shanghai’s history and some of its best known landmarks that most people simply walk past without thinking about. Here’s the details….

Bestselling author Paul French (Midnight In Peking) has just released his latest book, Bloody Saturday, and Bespoke is proud to be partnering with him and Penguin Books on a one-off September walking tour recounting this dark day in Shanghai’s history. Just to make it even more exciting, the tour will be led by leading Shanghai history expert Peter Hibbard.

Published this week as a ‘Penguin Special’, Bloody Saturday makes use of rich source material to retell the tragic events of August 14th, 1937. It was on this day that Chinese fighter planes accidentally dropped bombs on their own city. One fell on the busy intersection of Nanking Road and the Bund, while two more landed just outside the crowded Great World building in the French Concession, leaving thousands dead or injured in what was, at the time, the worst aerial bombardment the world had ever seen.

Leading this Limited Edition walking tour on the morning of Sunday, September 17th is none other than legendary historian and writer Peter Hibbard (MBE). Now based in the UK, Hibbard is a former President of the Royal Asiatic Society and has authored numerous books and articles on concession-era Shanghai.

He’s making a fleeting stop in the city so Bespoke snapped him up to help retell the events of that day. Stay tuned for more information coming next week or email info@bespoke-shanghai.com sooner if you’re as excited as we are.

This Limited Edition Public Walking Tour will take place on Sunday, September 17th at 10am. Tickets cost 350RMB per person and will be on sale from Tuesday, August 15th. Want to get to the front of the line? Send us an email with the title ‘Bloody Saturday Walking Tour’ and we’ll provide you with priority booking access.

see https://www.bespoketravelcompany.com/urbanedit/limited-edition-tour-preview-bloody-saturday/

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