Empire made me
an Englishman adrift in Shanghai
by Robert Bickers
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"This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all..." Empire Made Me Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities - an incredible panorama of nightclubs, opium-dens, gambling and murder. Threatened from within by communist workers and from without by Chinese warlords and Japanese troops, and governed by an ever more desperate British-dominated administration, Shanghai was both mesmerising and terrible.Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. It is his story, told in part through his rediscovered photo-albums and letters, that Robert Bickers has uncovered in this remarkable, moving book.
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Biography, British Empire, Colonialism, Foreign Relations, History, Nonfiction, Police, China, British, asia, Police, great britain, Great britain, foreign relations, 20th century, Police, biography, Shanghai (china), China, history, 20th century, Great britain, colonies, asia, BritishPeople
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Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
June 3, 2004, Penguin Books
Trade Paperback
in English
0141011955 9780141011950
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Empire made me: an Englishman adrift in Shanghai
2003, Allen Lane
in English
0713996846 9780713996845
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Empire made me: an Englishman adrift in Shanghai
2003, Columbia University Press
in English
0231131321 9780231131322
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maps on end papers.
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