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*Great War Forum thread [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96396 Wei-hai-wei and Liu Kung Tao, then and now]. Britain leased this area 1898-1930.There was a naval depot and a garrison of British troops.
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:*[[1st China War]] 1839-42
:*[[2nd China War]] 1856-60
*[[3rd China War]] 1898-1901
*[[Taiping Rebellion]] 1850-64
*[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/china/guidesources/ China: Sources in the India Office Records] Guide to records at the [[British Library]]
*''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]]. Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.people.ex-forces/v3LqubdrU1k link] lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484)
==British Army==
The British Army leased for a time Wei-hai-wei (a fine natural harbour) on the mainland and Liu Kung Tao island. There was a garrison of British Troops
A naval depot serviced the Royal Navy's China Squadron.<ref> Great War Forum thread [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96396 Wei-hai-wei and Liu Kung Tao, then and now] by Bushfighter April 2008. (Images only available to [[Mailing lists#Military| logged in members ]] of GWF) (retrieved 14 April 2014)</ref>
==External links==
*University of Bristol’s [http://visualisingchina.net/blog/about/ Visualising China Blog] is "a web-based resource that allows users to explore more than 9,000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1870 and 1950".
**[http://visualisingchina.net/blog/2013/08/19/who-took-the-photographs/ Who took the photographs?] by Robert Bickers August 19, 2013
==Historical books on-line==
*[https://archive.org/details/residencechinese00fort ''A residence among the Chinese inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856''] by Robert Fortune 1857 Archive.org
*Restricted access online books are available at the website [http://xml.lib.hku.hk/gsdl/db/ctwe/search.shtml China Through Western Eyes] , a [http://lib.hku.hk/database/ digital initiative] from the [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Covers the period until 1911, although the date of publication may be later. [http://xml.lib.hku.hk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?c=ctwe&a=d&cl=CL1 Browse the titles]. Includes titles about missionary work. Unfortunately this collection is no longer publicly available. For the collections publicly available, see [http://www.lib.hku.hk/database/ Digital Initiatives]
*[https://archive.org/details/chinamartyrsof1900fors ''The China Martyrs of 1900.
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors'']
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/whoswhoinfareast00hongrich#page/n3/mode/2up ''Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June''] Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918''] Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
== References ==
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