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- Objectstaat
- Book Title
- Empire Made Me : An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
- ISBN
- 9780231131322
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Empire Made Me : an Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Subject
- Asia / General, International Relations / General, Law Enforcement, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 45.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place. This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare glimpse of imperialism and the making of modern China seen from the perspective of a working-class Englishman enforcing the order of everyday life on the streets of Shanghai. Culled from Tinkler's many personal letters, Empire Made Me meticulously documents his astonishingly revealing life in the service of the British Empire between 1919 and 1939, one of hundreds of young men who joined the Shanghai Municipal Police. Responsible for maintaining order in Shanghai's International Settlement, the SMP expanded and enforced British dominion in China's most important political, commercial, and cultural center. Tinkler would have remained just another anonymous and forgotten colonial policeman were it not for his unexpected death, at the hands of Japanese marines and an incompetent local doctor, in June 1939. His suspicious death created a noisy diplomatic incident that was picked up by journalists and splashed across the front pages of Britain's newspapers. Many of Tinkler's personal letters survived, and they describe his personal life in unusually vivid detail, including his relationships, his knowing masculinity, his travels, and his bitter meditations on his lowly position in a powerful but waning empire. Robert Bickers absorbing biography uses Tinkler's letters as well as extensive archival research to tell the story of this man's everyday life and violent decline in a colonial world--a story that offers an uncommonly candid history of twentieth-century imperialism.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231131321
ISBN-13
9780231131322
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2859557
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Empire Made Me : an Englishman Adrift in Shanghai
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Asia / General, International Relations / General, Law Enforcement, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
45.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2003-051452
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ds796.S29b534 2003
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
" Empire Made Meis a fascinating and intimate portrait of Shanghai at its apex." -- Asian Review of Books, Bickers brings this world of Britain overseas alive in this fascinating study. This book is both a 'good read' and a solid history., Informative... energetically written. Making his way warily between the anti-imperialists and the nostalgists of empire, placing a 'marginal' man in his full context, Bickers does lift a corner of the curtain on a nearly lost world, a world as ordinary then as it may seem extraordinary to us., "Informative... energetically written. Making his way warily between the anti-imperialists and the nostalgists of empire, placing a 'marginal' man in his full context, Bickers does lift a corner of the curtain on a nearly lost world, a world as ordinary then as it may seem extraordinary to us." -- John Sperling, The Guardian, A work of dedicated and original scholarship.... What emerges is the portrait of a singular and heroic man., fascinating piece of historical detective work...it is probably the best Old Shanghai book I have read...superb, "fascinating piece of historical detective work...it is probably the best Old Shanghai book I have read...superb" -- Anton Graham, China Economic Review, "A work of dedicated and original scholarship.... What emerges is the portrait of a singular and heroic man." -- John Carey, Sunday Times, London, Bickers guides us deftly through a wealth of local archives...and personal interviews to fashion a richly layered social history of Shanghai's foreign police., "Bickers guides us deftly through a wealth of local archives...and personal interviews to fashion a richly layered social history of Shanghai's foreign police." -- Carolyn Wakeman, China Review International, "Bickers brings this world of Britain overseas alive in this fascinating study. This book is both a 'good read' and a solid history." -- Parks M. Coble, International History Review, "A breathtaking transportation to an utterly fascinating time, place, and individual history." -- Karen Fang, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Bickers had done a wonderful job of showing the human face of empire, and bravely, through a distinctively unattractive personality., " Empire Made Me is a fascinating and intimate portrait of Shanghai at its apex." -- Asian Review of Books, Bickers' detailed recovery of an obscure and 'unimportant' policeman's life gives a valuable street-level view of a complex scene., "Bickers had done a wonderful job of showing the human face of empire, and bravely, through a distinctively unattractive personality." -- Philippa Levine, American Historical Review, "Robert Bickers has written a book providing a new perspective on empire." -- Marcia R. Ristaino, Journal of World History, "Bickers' detailed recovery of an obscure and 'unimportant' policeman's life gives a valuable street-level view of a complex scene." -- Robin Blake, Financial Times, London
Table of Content
The Empire World Before Shanghai Shanghai 1919 Shanghai Municipal Police Shanghai policeman 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
Copyright Date
2003
Dewey Decimal
951.13204092
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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