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Empire Made Me

Empire Made Me Politics & Society

Empire Made Me

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'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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
418
Release Date:
2004-06-03
Publication Date:
2004-06-03
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0141011955
ISBN13:
9780141011950
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
496 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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