Robert Bickers
Robert A. Bickers | |
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.jpg) Robert Bickers in 2017 | |
| Born | Robert Bickers Wiltshire, England |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Alma mater | SOAS University of London |
Robert A. Bickers FBA (born 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 six books and editor or co-editor of three more.
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 in Taiwan. After holding fellowships in Oxford University and Cambridge University, Bickers joined the department of history at the University of Bristol in 1997, where he is currently a professor of history and associate pro vice-chancellor.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.[4]
Scholarship
Bickers' book Out of China was shortlisted for the 2018
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
- China Bound: John Swire & Sonsand Its World (Bloomsbury, 2020)
- 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
- 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
- ^ a b Morgan, John (26 April 2018). "Interview with Robert Bickers". The University Rankings. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Professor Robert Bickers". University of Bristol. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Bickers, Robert (5 September 2011). "About me". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Professor Robert Bickers FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
- ^ "The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Winner and Shortlist". The Wolfson History Prize. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Mitter, Rana (7 December 2017). "Barbarians Out!". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Morris D. Forkosch Prize Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Bickers, Robert. "Hong Kong History Project". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Historical Photographs of China". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "The British Inter-University China Centre". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Watershed Hosts Partnership Hub for SW Creative Industries". Watershed. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "University of Bristol: Senior Team". University of Bristol. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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