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Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai - Softcover

Buch 27 von 52: Allen Lane History

Bickers, Robert

 
9780141011950: Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0141011955 ISBN 13: 9780141011950
Verlag: Penguin, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

'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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Bickers is the author of the highly-acclaimed Empire Made Me and The Scramble for China. He has written extensively on Chinese history and is a Professor of History at the University of Bristol.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0141011955
ISBN 13 
9780141011950
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
416
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