BICC Position

Co-Director

Home Institution

Humanities Department, University of Bristol

Contact Information

Humanities Department, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB, robert.bickers@bristol.ac.uk

Courses Taught

Research Interests

Current Projects

Recent publications

Bickers, R; ‘Empire Made Me: An Englishman adrift in Shanghai’ (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2003, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

Bickers, R; ‘ Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism, 1900-1949’, (1999), pp.i-xii, 1-276.

Bickers, R ; ‘The Greatest Cultural Asset East of Suez”: the History and Politics of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra and Public band, 1881-1946’, in Chi-hsiung Chang, chief ed., Ershi shiji de Zhongguo yu shijie (China and the world in the twentieth century) (Taibei: Institute of History, Academia Sinica, 2001), pp. 835-75.

Bickers, R; ‘Ordering Shanghai: Policing a treaty port, 1854-1900’ in Maritime Empires: British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby (The Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum, 2004), pp. 173-194.

Bickers, R; ‘Shanghailanders: The Formation and Identity of the British Settler Community in Shanghai, 1843-1937’, Past and Present, No.159 (May 1998), pp. 161-211. (With Jeffrey Wasserstrom) ‘Shanghai’s ‘Chinese and Dogs Not Admitted’ Sign: History, Legend and Contemporary Symbol’, The China Quarterly, No.142, (June 1995), pp. 444-466.