Kidnapped in Shanghai: The Empire’s Hunt for Phan Bội Châu
In June 1925, French agents snatched Vietnam’s most wanted revolutionary off a Shanghai train platform and smuggled him back to Hanoi in chains. Accused of masterminding bombings that killed French officers and a colonial official, Phan Bội Châu faced a death sentence the empire had already passed in absentia.
Host Alexander Lawson unravels the true crime of a scholar-turned-revolutionary: the 1913 attacks that terrorized Indochina, the decade-long manhunt across Asia, the illegal kidnapping that shocked the world, and the trial that turned a courtroom into a stage for resistance.
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