Empire made me : an Englishman adrift in Shanghai
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Empire made me : an Englishman adrift in Shanghai
Allen Lane, 2003
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Includes bibliographic references and index
"Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books"
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- The empire world
- before Shanghai
- Shanghai 1919
- the Shanghai Municipal Police
- Shanghai detective
- "learning to be a man"
- the end of the "good old China"
- what we can't know
- adrift in the empire world
- empire's civil dead
- aftermath
- we are the dead.
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