The Battle of Shanghai (traditional Chinese: 淞滬會戰; simplified Chinese: 淞沪会战; pinyin: Sōng hù huìzhàn) was a major battle fought between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in the Chinese city of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Bund is a setting (and namesake) of the Hong Kong television series The Bund (1980) and film Shanghai Grand (1996). The story of both involve pre-World War II era gangsters competing for control of the Bund.

Oct 10, 2014 · Designed by Henry Fehr, who was responsible also for civic war memorials in Leeds, and in Graaf Reinet in the Eastern Cape, it was unveiled on 16 February 1924, and was the largest and most impressive of the foreign monuments erected on the Bund between 1864 and the Pacific War.

A Shanghai Expeditionary Army under General Iwace Mitsui landed on August 23, an impressive force of two large divisions and a tank corps. Celebrating their victory in Shanghai on October 21, 1937, Japanese soldiers shout a triumphant “Banzai” from the hollow of a bombed-out building.

In pre-WWII Shanghai, one of the most recognisable landmarks on the city’s Bund had been Henry Fehr’s art nouveau Allied War Memorial, first erected in 1924, and featuring at its top a statue of a winged Victory.

Nov 8, 2014 · With the allied victory in November 1918 debate immediately commenced about the Iltis monument. Why, demanded some, was a nationalist monument ever allowed to be erected on the internationalised Bund.

Mar 1, 2025 · Three bombs fell at the corner of Nanking Road and the Bund, followed by two more bombs in front of the Great World building in the French Concession, instantly killing 1,200 people and leaving hundreds of wounded on the ground. On the first day of the war, in a single stroke, Shanghai experienced its highest civilian war casualty.

Jan 23, 2019 · The Japanese, which two years before World War II began had murdered Chinese civilians in the 1937 Nanking Massacre, took over Shanghai and The Bund in 1942. The invasion lasted until the Japanese surrender to Allied forces in 1945.

Despite a desperate resistance, by early November Japan had taken control of the city of Shanghai and demonstrated their newfound status by marching its victorious troops through the International Settlement.

Mar 1, 2025 · The war memorial on the Bund was erected in 1924. It was commissioned to the architect J.E. March (Mrs. Spence, Robinsons & Partners) conjointly by both Municipal Councils of the French Concession and International Settlement. The memorial is dedicated to the European soldiers died during WWI. ...