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Empire Made Me Paperback - 2004
by Bickers, Robert A
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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.