Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street
Bustling pedestrian shopping boulevard once bombed by mistake in a wartime tragedy in nineteen thirty-seven.
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This guide to Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street in Shanghai returns to an ordinary Saturday afternoon, August 14, 1937, when Chinese pilots flew blind through thick cloud trying to strike a Japanese warship anchored near the city's foreign quarters, certain until then that the war would stay across the river. It follows what happened next along this stretch of road and the Bund nearby. Look for the Cathay Hotel's green pyramid roof, now the Peace Hotel, as you walk this stretch of the street.
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