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Empire Made Me

Empire Made Me Paperback - 2004

by Bickers, Robert A

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Penguin UK, 2004. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Empire Made Me
  • Author Bickers, Robert A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin UK, London
  • Date 2004
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0141011955I5N00
  • ISBN 9780141011950 / 0141011955
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.85 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 2.16 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.132

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Summary

"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 MeShanghai 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.

About the author

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