Robert Bickers

Robert A. Bickers (born 7 December 1964) is a British historian of modern China and colonialism.[1] He is currently a Professor of History at the University of Bristol.[2] Bickers is the author of five books and editor/co-editor of three more. A sixth book, China Bound: John Swire & Sons and its World, a history of the British company John Swire & Sons, will be published by Bloomsbury in March 2020.[3]

Robert A. Bickers
Robert Bickers in 2017
BornRobert Bickers
(1964-12-07) 7 December 1964
Wiltshire, England
OccupationHistorian

Biography

Born in a Royal Air Force hospital in Wiltshire, UK, Bickers grew up living on Royal Air Force bases across England, in Germany, and in Hong Kong.[1] He studied Chinese language at SOAS University of London during the mid 1980s, including a year studying at the Beijing Language Institute in China. In 1997 Bickers joined the Department of History at the University of Bristol, where he is a Professor of History and Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor.[4]

Scholarship

Bickers' most recent book, Out of China, was shortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson History Prize.[5] Rana Mitter in the New York Review of Books described it as "a panoramic examination of the increasingly powerful articulation of China's national identity in the twentieth century and the country's painful encounter with Western imperialism."[6] Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai (Allen Lane/Penguin and Columbia Univ. Press, 2003) was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize of the American Historical Association.[7]

Bickers directs the Hong Kong Kong History Project and the Historical Photographs of China digitization initiative.[8][9] He is the former co-director of the British Inter-university China Centre and the REACT Knowledge Exchange Hub and is currently Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (PGR) at the University of Bristol.[10][11][12]

Published works
  • Out of China: How the Chinese ended the era of Western Domination (Allen Lane, 2017) ISBN 978-0718192396
  • Getting Stuck in for Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund (Penguin, 2014) ISBN 978-0143800293
  • The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2011) ISBN 978-0713997491
  • Empire Made Me: An Englishman adrift in Shanghai (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2003) ISBN 978-0141011950
  • Britain in China (Allen Lane/Penguin, 1999) ISBN 978-0719056970

Edited works:

  • Settlers and Expatriates: Britons over the Seas (Oxford History of the British Empire, 2014) ISBN 9780198703372
  • Britain and China, 1840-1970: Empire, Finance, and War co-edited with Jonathan J. Howlett ISBN 978-0415658768
  • Treaty Ports in Modern China: Law, Land & Power (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia, 2018) co-edited with Isabella Jackson ISBN 978-1138477407

References
  1. Morgan, John (26 April 2018). "Interview with Robert Bickers". The University Rankings. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  2. "Professor Robert Bickers". University of Bristol. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  3. "China Bound: John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  4. Bickers, Robert. "About me". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  5. "The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Winner and Shortlist". The Wolfson History Prize. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  6. Mitter, Rana (7 December 2017). "Barbarians Out!". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  7. "Morris D. Forkosch Prize Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  8. Bickers, Robert. "Hong Kong History Project". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  9. "Historical Photographs of China". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  10. "The British Inter-University China Centre". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  11. "Watershed Hosts Partnership Hub for SW Creative Industries". Watershed. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  12. "University of Bristol: Senior Team". University of Bristol. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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