Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai - Couverture rigide

Bickers, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0713996846 ISBN 13 : 9780713996845

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2003

Synopsis

VG condition first edition book with dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has very little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents, coloured maps as pastedowns, absolutely clean with no markings or inscriptions.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'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 MeShanghai 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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robert Bickers is Senior Lecturer in History at Bristol University. He has published extensively on Chinese history.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0713996846
• ISBN 13: 9780713996845
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416