1932-01-28 - 1932-03-03

January 28 Shanghai Incident

ShanghaiShanghai · Japanese and Chinese forces fought in the city after the Manchurian crisis, exposing the military vulnerability of the international city.

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  2. Lee Bong-chang attempt in Tokyo
  3. January 28 Shanghai IncidentCurrent record
  4. Proclamation of Manchukuo
  5. Mongolian uprising of 1932
  6. Yun Bong-gil action at Hongkou Park
  7. May 15 Incident
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Context

The January 28 Incident was a limited war after the Manchurian crisis, but it combined urban combat, foreign concessions, press coverage, and international opinion. It foreshadows why Shanghai later became a symbolic battlefield of the wider war.

Sources

Virtual Shanghai photographs, a Hoover Institution collection record, and images of the 19th Route Army are linked together to document the military and urban setting of the 1932 Shanghai fighting.

Media

19th Route Army fighting in ChabeiVisual record19th Route Army fighting in ChabeiChinese 19th Route Army troops fighting during the 1932 Shanghai Incident.

Source Trail

PhotoVirtual Shanghai · Songhu Railway damaged by Japanese bombing in the January 28 incidentOpen sourceArchiveHoover Institution Library & Archives · January 28 Shanghai Incident collection itemOpen sourceMedia RecordWikimedia Commons · Chinese soldiers of the 19th Army fighting in Chabei district.jpgOpen source