# Empire Made Me

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- Book: [Empire Made Me](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-bickers/empire-made-me) ([Empire Made Me.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-bickers/empire-made-me.md))
- Authors: [Robert Bickers](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-bickers)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4101-195-0
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2004-06-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 Me Shanghai 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.