Robert Bickers in Peking – Tuesday 24th
Posted: May 23rd, 2011 | 1 Comment »Just a quickie for all those resident in the capital – Robert Bickers will be at the Bookworm talking about his excellent new book (see previous posts), well worth a listen – details as follows:
The Scramble for China – Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire
Tuesday May 24 – 7.30pm
The Scramble for China is an epic, dynamic account of a century of Sino-foreign interactions, confrontation and confusion. Told from both the Western and Chinese point-of-view, Robert Bickers’ book examines how events such as the opium wars or the Boxer uprising have impacted upon China’s relations with the world. Robert Bickers is the author of the highly-acclaimed Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. He has written extensively on Chinese history and is currently Professor of History at the University of Bristol.
He also ran an AHRC-funded project on the history of the worked with the at the Met Offices Hadley Centre on an AHRC Knowledge Catalyst project leads a British Academy funded project Co-Directs the is involved in Bristol Universitys and the …Welcomes proposals in any area of modern Chinese and East Asian history in most areas of colonial history but particularly in the history of Sino-Western relations the Customs service and the treaty port world foreign society politics or culture in China before the 1950s its rise and its fall…Currently has students working on ..