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. Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai South railway station, the photograph became known as a cultural icon demonstrating Japanese wartime atrocities in China. The photograph was widely published, and in less than a month had been seen by more than 136 million viewers.[1] The photographer, Hearst Corporation's H. S. "Newsreel" Wong, also known as Wong Hai-Sheng or Wang Xiaoting, did not discover the identity or even the sex of the injured child, whose mother lay dead nearby. The baby was called Ping Mei.[2] One of the most memorable war photographs ever published, and perhaps the most famous newsreel scene of the 1930s,[3] the image stimulated an outpouring of Western anger against Japanese violence in China.[4] Journalist Harold Isaacs called the iconic image "one of the most successful 'propaganda' pieces of all time".[5]
Wong shot footage of the bombed-out South Station with his Eyemo newsreel camera, and he took several still photographs with his Leica. The famous still image, taken from the Leica, is not often referred to by name—rather, its visual elements are described. It has also been called Motherless Chinese Baby,[6] Chinese Baby, and The Baby in the Shanghai Railroad Station.[7] The photograph was denounced by Japanese nationalists who claimed that it was staged.[8]
Faber1978
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Nobukatsu1999
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search