Sihang Warehouse Museum

This guide to the Sihang Warehouse Museum in Shanghai opens at dawn on October 29, 1937, when a teenage guide named Yang Huimin smuggles a flag across a bridge to the roughly four hundred Chinese soldiers trapped inside, defending Shanghai's retreat under Lieutenant Colonel Xie Jinyuan. It follows the four-day siege as residents across Suzhou Creek watched from the International Settlement, smuggling food and medicine in after dark. Listen for how the defenders let the number of their own strength become a wartime legend.