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Author	Bickers, Robert A.
Title	Empire made me : an Englishman adrift in Shanghai / Robert Bickers.
Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	951 B	IN LIBRARY

Description	409 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Note	"First published in the UK by Penguin"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-393) and index.
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.
Subject	Shanghai (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century.
	Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
	Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China.
	Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia.
	Tinkler, Maurice.
	British -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography.
	Police -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography.
	Shanghai (China). Municipal Police -- History.
Added Title	Englishman adrift in Shanghai
ISBN	0231131321 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780231131322 (cloth : alk. paper)

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