In the original dustsheet. Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai is the 2003 biography of the Shanghai policeman Richard Maurice Tinkler by the British historian Robert Bickers. Tinkler, a British veteran of World War One turned policeman in interwar Shanghai, was described by Bickers as an extremely tough, able, violent and racist policeman operating in one of the world’s most crime-ridden and dangerous cities; who loathed the Chinese as a people and treated them with much brutality. The New Zealand author John Grant Ross wrote in a review of Empire Made Me that: “Some books get under your skin, keep you awake at night long after you’ve finished reading them. This biography of a policeman in Shanghai’s International Settlement in the 1920s and 1930s is such a book.”