Empire Made Me by Robert Bickers

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Empire Made Me by Robert Bickers

'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.

"'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed worldIt is a life which manages to touch us all' Empire Made Me"

Robert Bickers is Senior Lecturer in History at Bristol University. He has published extensively on Chinese history.

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ISBN 13	9780141011950
ISBN 10	0141011955
Title	Empire Made Me
Author	Robert Bickers
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2004-06-03
Number of pages	416
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