Bloody Saturday is the common name for a 1937 photograph taken by Hearst news photographer H.S. Wong, also known as Wong Hai-Sheng, showing a badly burned infant crying alone amid the wreckage of Shanghai's South railway station after a Japanese bombing raid during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Published in Life magazine and newspapers around the world, it became one of the most widely seen news photographs of the 1930s and is credited with significantly shaping international public opinion against Japan's actions in China in the years before the Second World War. It remains one of the most frequently cited early examples of a single photograph shaping global political opinion.
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Bloody Saturday is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai
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Bloody Saturday (Chinese: 血腥的星期六; pinyin: Xuèxīng de Xīngqíliù) is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Bloody Saturday (Chinese: 血腥的星期六; pinyin: Xuèxīng de Xīngqíliù) is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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