Midnight in Peking Walking Tour

On January 8, 1937 the body of a young foreign girl was found brutally mutilated at the foot of Beijing’s city wall. The murder shocked the foreign community in the capital and made headlines around the globe.

Based on the murder case we have created a walk that shows a largely unknown side of republican Beijing. At the center is the so-called Beijing Badlands, an area where white Russians and retired soldiers ran bars and brothels, catering to the respectable high society of the old Legation Quarter.We will piece together the background story of a crime committed during the anxiety-filled days where China was on the brink of war with Japan, from the hutong where Pamela lived with her father, to the allegedly haunted Fox Tower where the body was found.

18:00-21:00 Saturday, January 20