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Empire Made Me : An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
Empire Made Me An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai Author:Robert Bickers This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare view of empire from the bottom up and a glimpse of the making of modern China. Robert Bickers mines the letters of Richard Tinkler along with archival files to create a fascinating and much-needed narrative of everyday life in the colonial world and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial exper... more »ience that will permanently affect our view of it.« less