Empire Made Me
An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
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Author
Publication
2004-06-03 - Penguin Books, London
Language
English
Word Count
102,500 words, Guess
Page Count
410 pages
Physical Format
Trade Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100141011955
- ISBN-139780141011950
- LibraryThing335872
- Goodreads1647640
- OCLC Control Number224056542
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780141011950
- Open LibraryOL7358304M
Classifications
- LCCDS796.S2
Description
"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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