Coming from poverty-stricken England Tinkler was taken in by the prosperity he saw in Shanghai. Thus Tinkler became a man made by the British Empire and ended up An Englishman adrift in Shanghai. Bickers has written a good history of Shanghai pre-World war two/5(20). "Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the Shanghai police. It is his story, told in part through his rediscovered photo-albums and letters, that Robert Bickers tells here. Aggressive, bullying, racist, self-aggrandizing, Maurice Tinkler was in many ways a typical Briton-on-the-make in an empire world. Coming from poverty-stricken England Tinkler was taken in by the prosperity he saw in Shanghai. Thus Tinkler became a man made by the British Empire and ended up An Englishman adrift in Shanghai. Bickers has written a good history of Shanghai pre-World war two/5(26).
著有Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism, （）, Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai ()。他同时主持有关近代中国海关研究以及有关近代中国历史照片的项目，担任英国校际中国中心（British Inter-University China Centre）联执主任。. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai • Robert Bickers Some books get under your skin, keep you awake at night long after you've finished reading them. This biography of a policeman in Shanghai's International Settlement in the s and s is such a book. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers pp, Allen Lane, £ When Corporal Maurice Tinkler, son of a bankrupted Lancashire ironmonger and hotelier, emerged.
"Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities, rivalled only by New York and Berlin. Its waterfront crammed with ocean freighters, gunboats, junks and myriad coastal craft, it was the focus for trade between China and the world, creating, for Chinese and foreigner alike, immense if precarious opportunities. Shanghai's great. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai: www.doorway.ru: Bickers, Robert: Books. Flip to back Flip to front. Listen Playing Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Learn more. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai: Author: Robert Bickers: Publisher.
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