Robert A. Bickers FBA (born 1964) is a British historian of modern China and colonialism.

[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.

[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.