Empire made me
an Englishman adrift in Shanghai
Edición de la obra Empire Made Me
| Autor | Robert A. Bickers |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Columbia University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2003 |
| Lugar | New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 409 |
| ISBN-10 | 0231131321 |
| OCLC | 52107881 |
| LCCN | 2003051452 |
| Número de Cutter | B583e |
"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.