{"id":2449,"date":"2014-08-03T18:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2014-08-03T18:54:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T18:54:41","slug":"getting-stuck-in-for-shanghai-putting-the-kibosh-on-the-kaiser-from-the-bund-the-british-at-shanghai-and-the-great-war-by-robert-bickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/getting-stuck-in-for-shanghai-putting-the-kibosh-on-the-kaiser-from-the-bund-the-british-at-shanghai-and-the-great-war-by-robert-bickers","title":{"rendered":"Getting Stuck in for Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund; The British at Shanghai and the Great War by Robert Bickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/9780143800293.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2450\" alt=\"9780143800293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2014\/08\/9780143800293.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">eviewed by Peter Gordon<\/span><br \/>\n2 August 2014 \u2014 Getting Stuck in for<!--more--> Shanghai by Robert Bickers is another in the appealing Penguin China series of 100-odd page \u201cSpecials\u201d on China and World War One. This particular volume covers the British \u201cShanghailanders\u201d that went back to Europe to fight.<\/p>\n<p>Bickers, as those who have read Empire Made Me\u2014his full-length biography of Shanghai policeman Maurice Tinkler\u2014may already know, is able to master both primary sources such as personal letters and contemporary newspaper accounts as well as the contemporary zeitgeist\u2014a term I am using without irony in spite of the subject matter. The tone of this book is telegraphed by its subtitle: \u201cPutting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from the Bund\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This was not a terribly significant factor in the First World War. The soldiers numbered in the hundreds, fewer\u2014one imagines\u2014than from a moderately-sized town in Britain. Their stories from the front, captured in letters, are as stiff-upper-lip and horrific as any, but not hugely different from others\u2019 one reads elsewhere. The interest in the book, beside Bickers\u2019s skill at portraiture and finding the telling anecdote, lies in the tussle he depicts between patriotism and Shanghai\u2019s \u201ccosmopolitanism\u201d:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianreviewofbooks.com\/new\/?ID=1944#!\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eviewed by Peter Gordon 2 August 2014 \u2014  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/getting-stuck-in-for-shanghai-putting-the-kibosh-on-the-kaiser-from-the-bund-the-british-at-shanghai-and-the-great-war-by-robert-bickers\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[701,433],"views":1355,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}