Empire Made Me
Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai is a 2003 non-fiction book by the British historian Robert Bickers which details the life of Richard Maurice Tinkler, an Englishman who served in the British Army during World War I before joining the Shanghai Municipal Police during the interwar period. == Synopsis == The book details the life of Richard Maurice Tinkler, who was born into a working-class Lancashire family in 1898 and during World War I enlisted in the British Army in 1915 by lying about his age.