Empire Made Me

By: Robert Bickers, Robert A. Bickers

ISBN-13: 9780231131322
ISBN-10: 0231131321
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published date: 2003
This riveting “biography of a nobody” offers a rare view of empire from the bottom up and a glimpse of the making of modern China. Robert Bickers mines the letters of Richard Tinkler along with archival files to create a fascinating and much-needed narrative of everyday life in the colonial world and an unvarnished portrait of the colonial experience that will permanently affect our view of it.