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China Bound - The Swire Group and Its World by Robert Bickers
Category: Business
An unrivaled and comprehensive look at the 200-year story of Swire, a highly diversified, global group of companies including Cathay Pacific, with a rich and colorful history.The Swire Group, started by John Swire in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company, focused mainly on ...Show more
Empire Made Me by Robert A. Bickers
Category: History | Series: Allen Lane History S.
Shanghai in the wake of World War I was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities. Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. This is his story, told in part through his rediscovered photograph albums and letters.
Empire Made Me : An Englishman adrift in Shanghai by Robert A. Bickers
Category: Biography Memoir
Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world's most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities a swarming metropolis of nightclubs, opium-dens, gambling, sex and murder. Threatened from within by gangsters, communists and nationalists, and from without by Chinese warlords and the Japanese m ...Show more
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers
Category: History
Even at the high noon of Europe's empire-building China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonizing process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th ...Show more
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert A. Bickers
Category: Australian History
In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. This book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West.
The Scramble for China : Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert A. Bickers
Category: History
Secondhand. In the early 19th century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a European to speak Chinese was executed. But as new technology began to unbalance the relationshi ...Show more
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