图书标签: 历史 英文原版 殖民史学 史料 他者的再现 都市主义 上海 非西方
发表于2024-11-25
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Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place. This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare glimpse of imperialism and the making of modern China seen from the perspective of a working-class Englishman enforcing the order of everyday life on the streets of Shanghai. Culled from Tinkler's many personal letters, Empire Made Me meticulously documents his astonishingly revealing life in the service of the British Empire between 1919 and 1939, one of hundreds of young men who joined the Shanghai Municipal Police. Responsible for maintaining order in Shanghai's International Settlement, the SMP expanded and enforced British dominion in China's most important political, commercial, and cultural center. Tinkler would have remained just another anonymous and forgotten colonial policeman were it not for his unexpected death, at the hands of Japanese marines and an incompetent local doctor, in June 1939. His suspicious death created a noisy diplomatic incident that was picked up by journalists and splashed across the front pages of Britain's newspapers. Many of Tinkler's personal letters survived, and they describe his personal life in unusually vivid detail, including his relationships, his knowing masculinity, his travels, and his bitter meditations on his lowly position in a powerful but waning empire. Robert Bickers absorbing biography uses Tinkler's letters as well as extensive archival research to tell the story of this man's everyday life and violent decline in a colonial world -- a story that offers an uncommonly candid history of twentieth-century imperialism.
罗伯特·比克斯(Robert Bickers),英国布里斯托尔大学历史系教授,主要研究方向为近代中国史、殖民史,尤其是大英帝国和近代中国的关系,以及上海近代史(1843-1950)。著有Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism, 1900-49(1999), Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (2003)。他同时主持有关近代中国海关研究以及有关近代中国历史照片的项目,担任英国校际中国中心(British Inter-University China Centre)联执主任。
这本书英文原版和中文译本搭配销售的,翻了几页中文译本后果断决定看原版。历史系教授的用词相当生僻,偶尔也不乏幽默。从一个帝国中的小人物出发,讲述他人生的起伏。很多时候一个人在离开故乡之后,与家人不光是地理上的遥远,更是情感上的疏离,渐行渐远的感觉。帝国中的一分子,并不是人人都那么容易生存,在这本书中我看到的是更多普通百姓生活的艰辛,哪怕他是一名在中国的英国人,身在异乡的不易。很佩服他居然学会不少上海话。。。
评分好复杂的感觉,那时候到底中国怎么样啊
评分solid research. a very interesting and provoking read.
评分solid research. a very interesting and provoking read.
评分这本书英文原版和中文译本搭配销售的,翻了几页中文译本后果断决定看原版。历史系教授的用词相当生僻,偶尔也不乏幽默。从一个帝国中的小人物出发,讲述他人生的起伏。很多时候一个人在离开故乡之后,与家人不光是地理上的遥远,更是情感上的疏离,渐行渐远的感觉。帝国中的一分子,并不是人人都那么容易生存,在这本书中我看到的是更多普通百姓生活的艰辛,哪怕他是一名在中国的英国人,身在异乡的不易。很佩服他居然学会不少上海话。。。
默默无闻的主角经历一战洗礼后和许多看不到本土前景的同侪一样 漂洋过海来远东闯荡 一战后这种向帝国各地的移民行为有增无减,塑造了一批具有英国特征,却和本土若即若离的帝国臣民。上海虽然并非英帝国直辖领地,但巨大的商业利益,超过七十载的经营建设以及愈发摩登的生活环...
评分Prof. Robert Bickers should be no stranger to us. He is a leading authority in the British colonial history, especially the part concerning China. Over the years, he has published a number of books on the subject of China’s colonial history, the most recen...
评分Prof. Robert Bickers should be no stranger to us. He is a leading authority in the British colonial history, especially the part concerning China. Over the years, he has published a number of books on the subject of China’s colonial history, the most recen...
评分默默无闻的主角经历一战洗礼后和许多看不到本土前景的同侪一样 漂洋过海来远东闯荡 一战后这种向帝国各地的移民行为有增无减,塑造了一批具有英国特征,却和本土若即若离的帝国臣民。上海虽然并非英帝国直辖领地,但巨大的商业利益,超过七十载的经营建设以及愈发摩登的生活环...
评分多数中国读者对这本书感兴趣或许是因为书名中的“旧上海”,确实,理查德•廷克勒这个落拓的英国士兵在上海的经历本身折射出那个年代作为“冒险家乐园”的上海集天堂与地狱于一身的魔力。尽管这是一个不为人知的小人物(即便在英国也不会有多少人知道),但正因此,他生活中...
Empire Made Me pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024