Product Description: Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place. This riveting "biography of a nobody" offers a rare glimpse of imperialism and the making of modern China seen from the perspective of a working-class Englishman enforcing the order of everyday life on the streets of Shanghai...read more
9780231131322 | Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Richard Maurice Tinkler was an ordinary man in an extraordinary time and place.