Robert Bickers

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Robert Bickers is affiliated with the following schools: SOAS University of London, University of Bristol

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According to Wikipedia, Robert A. Bickers is a British historian of modern China and colonialism. He is currently a professor of history at the University of Bristol. Bickers is the author of six books and editor or co-editor of three more.

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The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 (2011) (80)
Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900-1949 (2000) (74)
Shanghailanders: The formation and identity of the British settler community in Shanghai 1843-1937 (1998) (74)
Toward integrated historical climate research: the example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (2016) (62)
Settlers and Expatriates (2010) (37)
British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter (2005) (32)
Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (2003) (31)
Treaty Ports in Modern China (2016) (30)
New Frontiers: Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953 (2001) (27)
May Days in Hong Kong: Riot and Emergency in 1967 (2009) (25)
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination (2017) (21)
Britain in China (1999) (21)
Revisiting the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854–1950 (2008) (20)
Settlers and Expatriates: Britons over the Seas (2010) (20)
The business of a secret war: Operation ‘Remorse’ and SOE salesmanship in Wartime China (2001) (20)
Incubator City (2012) (18)
Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-British Business, 1860-1911: The Impact of the Pro-British Commercial Network in Shanghai (2000) (17)
Britain and China, 1840-1970 (2015) (17)
Ritual and Diplomacy: The Macartney Mission to China, 1792-1794 (1995) (14)
Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858. (1997) (11)
Death of a Young Shanghailander: The Thorburn Case and the Defence of the British Treaty Ports in China in 1931 (1996) (10)
Studying the 1967 riots: An overdue project (2009) (10)
Purloined letters: History and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service (2006) (10)
Missionary Encounters: Sources and Issues (2013) (9)
Changing Shanghai's "Mind" : publicity, reform and the British in Shanghai, 1928-1931 : a lecture given at a meeting of the China Society on March 20th, 1991 (1992) (9)
Chinese Burns: Britain in China 1842-1900 (2000) (9)
Introduction: Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, land and power (2016) (8)
Ritual & diplomacy : the Macartney Mission to China, 1792-1794 : papers presented at the 1992 conference of the British Association for Chinese Studies marking the bicentenary of the Macartney Mission to China (1993) (8)
THE CHALLENGER: HUGH HAMILTON LINDSAY AND THE RISE OF BRITISH ASIA, 1832–1865* (2012) (8)
Moving Stories: Memorialisation and its Legacies in Treaty Port China (2014) (8)
The Colony’s Shifting Position in the British Informal Empire in China (1997) (7)
"The greatest cultural asset east of Suez": the history and politics of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra and Public Band, 1881-1946 (2001) (7)
Shanghailanders and Others (2010) (6)
INFRASTRUCTURAL GLOBALIZATION: LIGHTING THE CHINA COAST, 1860s–1930s (2013) (6)
Review: China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British rule in Hong Kong (2007) (5)
Who were the Shanghai Municipal Police, and why were they there? (2017) (5)
‘Throwing Light on Natural Laws’: Meteorology on the China coast, 1869-1912 (2016) (5)
Changing British Attitudes to China and the Chinese, 1928-1931: Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1992) (5)
Introduction: Britains and Britons over the seas (2010) (5)
Picturing China 1870-1950: Photographs from British Collections (2007) (4)
“Coolie work”: Sir Reginald Johnston at the School of Oriental Studies, 1931–1937 (1995) (4)
The Chinese Maritime Customs at War, 1941–45 (2008) (4)
Loose ties that bound: British empire, colonial authority and Hong Kong (2013) (4)
To Serve And Not To Rule (1996) (4)
Getting Stuck in for Shanghai: Or, Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund, The British at Shanghai and the Great War (2014) (3)
Maritime Empires: British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century (2004) (3)
Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1940s (2015) (3)
Out of China (2017) (3)
New Light on Lao She, London, and the London Missionary Society, 1921-1929 (1994) (3)
British travel writing from China in the Nineteenth Century (2011) (3)
On not being (Ma)caoed in Hong Kong: British officials minds and actions in 1967 (2009) (2)
Creative Dislocation: an Experiment in Collaborative Historical Research (2020) (2)
China and the West The Maritime Customs Service Archive from the Second Historical Archives of China, Nanjing (2007) (2)
Decolonising Imperial Heroes (2016) (2)
Negotiating Autonomy in Greater China (2013) (2)
Chapter 6: The Japanese and the Jews: a comparative analysis of their communities in Harbin, 1898-1930 (2017) (2)
‘Good work for China in every possible direction’: the Foreign Inspectorate of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1854-1950 (2012) (2)
Chinabound: Crossing borders in treaty port China (2006) (2)
The lives and deaths of photographs in early treaty port China (2012) (2)
An East Asian Circulation (2013) (1)
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016) (1)
Anglo-Japanese relations and treaty port China: the case of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service (2010) (1)
Semi-official correspondence with selected ports (2004) (1)
Transforming Frank Peasgood. Family Photographs and Shanghai Narratives (2007) (1)
Getting Stuck in for Shanghai (2014) (1)
China and the world in the twentieth century: selected essays (2001) (1)
In the shadow of the rising sun: Shanghai under Japanese occupation, 1937-45 (2004) (1)
Know your Bristol: Bristol's history, people's stories (2012) (1)
Review of Cherishing men from afar: Qing guest ritual and the Macartney embassy of 1793 by James L. Hevia (1997) (1)
Know Your Bristol On The Move (2015) (1)
Review of Shanghai: From market town to treaty port, 1074-1858 by Linda Cooke Johnson (1997) (1)
Chapter 5: Foreigners or outsiders? Westerners and Chinese Christians in Chongqing 1870s-1900 (2017) (1)
History, Legend, and Treaty Port Ideology, 1925-1931 (1993) (1)
Review of British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Series E. Asia, 1914-1939. Volume 35, China June 1928-Dec 1928 (1997) (1)
China in Britain, and in the British imagination (2017) (1)
Legal Fiction: Extraterritoriality as an Instrument of British Power in China in the long nineteenth century (2018) (1)
Toward integrated historical climate research: the example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (2016) (1)
China's age of fragility (2011) (1)
Chapter 4: Indian communities in China, c. 1842-1949 (2017) (1)
Restoration and reform, 1860-1900 (2016) (1)
Photo Essay: An East Asian Circulation: Asa Mattice on the USS Juniata, 1883–1885 (2013) (1)
Review: English Lessons: The pedagogy of imperialism in Nineteenth-century China (2005) (0)
London Office files (2004) (0)
Chapter 6: After colonialism (2017) (0)
China through a colonial lens (2011) (0)
Chapter 4: Dismantling informal empire (2017) (0)
General (1997) (0)
1967: Witnesses remember (2009) (0)
Know Your Bristol Stories (2014) (0)
The University of Bristol (0)
Review of The Ordinary and the Extraordinary: An Anthropological Study of Chinese Reform and the 1989 People's Movement in Beijing by Frank N. Pieke (1998) (0)
Second Historical Archives of China, Customs Service Archives, Catalogue (2015) (0)
5. Citizenship by Correspondence in the Shanghai International Settlement (1919-1943) (2010) (0)
Edmund S.K. Fung: The diplomacy of imperial retreat: Britain's South China policy, 1924–1931 . x, 311 pp. Hong Kong,etc.: Oxford University Press, 1991. £38. (1994) (0)
Chapter 3: Marginal Westerners in Shanghai: the Baghdadi Jewish community, 1845-1931 (2017) (0)
Chapter 2: China in Britain, and in the British imagination (2017) (0)
Four Lives, Two Cars, and a Colony (2021) (0)
Chapter 13: The Shanghai American community, 1937-1949 (2017) (0)
East Asia (1997) (0)
Hong Kong's transitions, 1842-1997 (1997) (0)
Chapter 11: The Russian diaspora community in Shanghai (2017) (0)
China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980 (2020) (0)
The policing of trade (2004) (0)
Visualizing China 1845-1965 (2012) (0)
Boxed out: How the British Museum suppressed discussion of British looting in China (2001) (0)
The Sino-Japanese War and its aftermath, 1931-1949 (2007) (0)
Review of Lord Hailey, the Colonial Office and the Politics of Race and Empire in the Second World war by Suke Walton (2001) (0)
太平战争时期的中国海关 (The Chinese Maritime Customs during the Pacific War) (2008) (0)
Review of Imperialism revisited: Political & Economic Relations between Britain & China, 1950-54 by David Clayton (1998) (0)
Paul Cohen, the Boxers, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2007) (0)
Visualising China: China 1850-1950: An interactive resource (2011) (0)
Empire Made Me (2003) (0)
Review: Forgotten Armies: The fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 (2006) (0)
Know Your Bristol Stories: Avonmouth and Shirehampton WW1 Stories', and 'Orchard Roots Bristol'. (2014) (0)
Chapter 8: Denied and besieged: the Japanese community of Korea, 1876-1945 (2017) (0)
The Sikh Chronicles (2015) (0)
Review of Wu Leichuan: A Confucian-Christian in Republican China by Chu Sin-jan (1998) (0)
Introduction: Britain and China (2015) (0)
Tsingtao and China (2015) (0)
J. E. Hoare: Japan's treaty ports and foreign settlements: the uninvited guests 1858–1899 . (Meiji Japan Series, 1.) xvi, 264 pp. Folkestone: Japan Library, 1994. £37.50. (1996) (0)
British concessions and Chinese cities, 1910-1930s (2013) (0)
Review of History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth by Paul A. Cohen (1998) (0)
Chapter 14: Afterword: a colonial world (2017) (0)
Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then (2013) (0)
Review of Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China he lost by Jonathan Fenby (2004) (0)
Journal of the History of Christianity in Modern China (2000) (0)
Foreword to Shanghai Policeman (2011) (0)
Nat Brandt: Massacre in Shansi. xxiv, 336 pp. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994. $29.95. (1995) (0)
Book Reviews : Hanchao LU, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1999. 456 pp., with photographs, glossary and index. ISBN: 0-520-21564-8 (hc). Price: $50.00 (2000) (0)
Staying on: The localisation of British activity in China (2017) (0)
Shanghai and the Green Howards, 1914-1918 (2014) (0)
Dismantling informal empire (2017) (0)
Book review: Shanghai and the edges of empires. By Meng Yue. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2006. Xxx + 336 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN 9780816644131 (2009) (0)
Chapter 10: Who were the Shanghai Municipal Police, and why where they there? The British recruits of 1919 (2017) (0)
Informal Empire in Crisis: British Diplomacy and the Chinese Customs Succession, 1927–1929 . By Martyn Atkins. [Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Program, 1995. x + 127 pp. Hard cover $20.00, ISBN 0-939657-79-1; paperback $12.00; ISBN 0-939657-74-0.] (1995) (0)
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the China Trade (2007) (0)
Visions of China (2019) (0)
General (1997) (0)
Review of China Perspectives [a journal] (1997) (0)
Inspector General's circulars (2004) (0)
Chapter 5: Staying on: the localisation of British activity in China (2017) (0)
Creating Memory: J.G. Ballard and Shanghai (2009) (0)
Yes, No, BINGO! (2015) (0)
Global Shanghai, 1850–2010: A History in Fragments (2010) (0)
China and the World (2014) (0)
Drink Ewo Beer (2008) (0)
Historical Photographs of China (2017) (0)
Book Reviews 1229 Shanghai International Settlement, and the existence of Hong Kong. The British could afford to lose the battle for the Customs, but they strove with greater vigour to preserve their advantages in those other spheres (2008) (0)
Know your Bristol (2012) (0)
Chapter 2: Colonialism 'in a Chinese atmosphere': the Caldwell affair and the perils of collaboration in early colonial Hong Kong (2017) (0)
Vaughan Postcard Collection Residency (2015) (0)
Circle: Material Reworking Howlround (2015) (0)
Department of Historical Studies (History) Special Topic The Origins, Consequences and History of the Boxer Rising in China, 1899-1900 (2011) (0)
Review of Policing Shanghai 1927-1937 by Frederic Wakeman Jr (1997) (0)
China and the West [microform] : the Maritime Customs Service Archive from the Second Historical Archives of China, Nanjing / general editors, Robert Bickers, Hans van de Ven. (2004) (0)
Old cash-my-cheque and his merry wife (2004) (0)
School of Oriental Studies, ??ji?i?jy (2016) (0)
Review of Select Antoinette Burton and Dane Kennedy , eds. How Empire Shaped Us (2017) (0)
Review of Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai: A social History, 1849-1949 by Christian Henriot (2003) (0)
Old photographs fever: the search for China’s pictured past (2012) (0)
Britons in China: A settler society (2017) (0)
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) (2010) (0)
Chapter 7: Japanese colonial citizenship in treaty port China: the location of Koreans and Taiwanese in the imperial order (2017) (0)
Chapter 12: In search of identity: the German community in Shanghai, 1933-1945 (2017) (0)
New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities (2013) (0)
Zujie li de Shanghai (English title given as Shanghai in Foreign Concessions) (2003) (0)
Review of Treason by the book by Jonathan Spence (2002) (0)
Repatriating the Archives with Digital Humanities (2019) (0)
Shanghailanders and others: British communities in treaty port China, 1843-1957 (2010) (0)
The Craft of Historical Creativity (2018) (0)
Confusion in Shanghai (Letter in response to a photograph caption in a book-review by Max Beloff of Martin Gilbert's A History of the Twentieth Century (1999) (0)
Village Politics and National Politics: The Boxers in Central Shanxi (2007) (0)
Chapter 3: Britons in China: a settler society (2017) (0)
For China and the World: Robert Hart (2014) (0)
The Meteorological Work of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1869-1947 (2008) (0)

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