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Empire Made Me

Paperback • 2004 • English

Empire Made Me

By Robert Bickers

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About the book

'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 administra...Show more

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ISBN

9780141011950

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2004

Language

English

Original title

Empire Made Me

Format

Paperback

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