| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Robert Bickers. Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. New York: Columbia University Press. 2003. Pp. 409. $32.50.

The treaty port of Shanghai was a fascinating outpost of the British Empire, although one discussed far more frequently by historians of China than by those of Britain. Shanghai was a curious amalgam in the period dealt with in this biography by Robert Bickers, himself one of a tiny band of British imperial historians focused on Britain's colonial relations with China. The port city was truly a global crossing in the early twentieth century, with an extraordinarily diverse population whose presence mirrored the political turmoil of the times. It is against this complex backdrop that Bickers offers us the life of an ordinary Englishman, Richard Maurice Tinkler. Tinkler came back from the trenches of northern France at the end of World War I dissatisfied, restless, and eager for both adventure and a paying job. The working-class Tinkler saw in the empire more opportunity than status-bound Britain could ever offer him. It was an old story by 1919, the year Tinkler arrived in Shanghai to a posting in the Shanghai Municipal Police. Men unlikely to rise much in Britain took their chances in imperial settings, often though by no means always faring better than they might have done had they stayed put.

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