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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924012225185?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Shanghai Almanac for  the Year 1857''] Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924012225185?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Shanghai Almanac for  the Year 1857''] Hathi Trust Digital Library
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924012225185?urlappend=%3Bseq=162 List of Foreign Residents at Shanghai, January 1858]
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924012225185?urlappend=%3Bseq=162 List of Foreign Residents at Shanghai, January 1858]
*''The Desk Hong List; A general and business directory for Shanghai and the Northern and River Ports etc''. [https://archive.org/details/1882deskhonglist 1882], [https://archive.org/details/1884deskhonglist 1884] Archive.org
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006044244 ''Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society''] Multiple volumes from 1860 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489580 ''Shanghai Considered Socially. A Lecture  by H Lang''], 2nd edition 1875. Archive.org 
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924006072114 ''Sketches in the foreign settlements and native city of Shanghai''] by W Macfarlane 1881. Reprinted from the ''Shanghai Mercury''. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924006072114 ''Sketches in the foreign settlements and native city of Shanghai''] by W Macfarlane 1881. Reprinted from the ''Shanghai Mercury''. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489598 ''The story of Shanghai from the opening of the port to foreign trade''] by J W  Maclellan 1889. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489598 ''The story of Shanghai from the opening of the port to foreign trade''] by J W  Maclellan 1889. Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft ''Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft ''Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489606 ''Historic Shanghai''] by C A Montalto de Jesus 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489606 ''Historic Shanghai''] by C A Montalto de Jesus 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/jstor-3405045 "A Shanghai Hospital"] by  Edna R Sparey, an article from ''The American Journal of Nursing, Volume 14'', January 1, 1914. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023229291 ''The Second Revolution in China, 1913. My adventures of the fighting around Shanghai, the Arsenal, Woosung Forts''] by St Piero Rudinger, Foreign War Reportter 1914. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gatewaytochina00unkngoog ''The gateway to China; pictures of Shanghai''] by Mary Ninde Gamewell 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gatewaytochina00unkngoog ''The gateway to China; pictures of Shanghai''] by Mary Ninde Gamewell 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n125/mode/1up "Shanghai"] , page 102 ''The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong'') by Carl Crow. Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n125/mode/1up "Shanghai"] , page 102 ''The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong'') by Carl Crow. Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org  
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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015050791709?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''China's Trial by Fire : the Shanghai War of 1932] by Donald A Jordan 2001. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015050791709?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''China's Trial by Fire : the Shanghai War of 1932] by Donald A Jordan 2001. Hathi Trust Digital Library


*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012846062?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai, the Paradise of Adventurers''] by G E Miller (Pseudonym) Diplomat 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  Elsewhere, the author is stated to be Mauricio Fresco, the Mexican Honorary Consul, whose position had long been deeply implicated in the large-scale organized gambling in the city of the 1920s<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=H4y8q_Zk0g4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PT349#v=onepage&q=%22G%20E%20Miller%22&f=false Page from ''Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai''] by Robert Bickers 2004 Google Books</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012846062?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai, the Paradise of Adventurers''] by G E Miller (Pseudonym) Diplomat 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  Elsewhere, the author is stated to be Mauricio Fresco, the Mexican Honorary Consul, whose position had long been deeply implicated in the large-scale organized gambling in the city of the 1920s<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=H4y8q_Zk0g4C&pg=PT347  Page from ''Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai''] by Robert Bickers 2004 Google Books</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822003666500?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Shanghai Problem''] by William Crane Johnstone 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822003666500?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Shanghai Problem''] by William Crane Johnstone 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020814672?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai and Tientsin, with special reference to foreign interests''] by F C Jones 1940. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020814672?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai and Tientsin, with special reference to foreign interests''] by F C Jones 1940. Hathi Trust Digital Library
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*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b40448?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Economic Shanghai: Hostage to Politics, 1937-1941''] by Robert W. Barnett 1941 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b40448?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Economic Shanghai: Hostage to Politics, 1937-1941''] by Robert W. Barnett 1941 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b658121?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai Lawyer''] by Norwood F. Allman 1943 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b658121?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai Lawyer''] by Norwood F. Allman 1943 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  
*Digital [http://www.vcea.net/Digital_Library/Book_originals_en.php Book originals] Visual Cultures in East Asia, a website connected with Virtual Shanghai, (refer above). The books are mainly connected with Shanghai and include a number  of Handbooks for travellers and residents. Pdf downloads.  
*Digital [http://www.vcea.net/Digital_Library/Book_originals_en.php Book originals] Visual Cultures in East Asia, a website connected with Virtual Shanghai, (refer above). The books are mainly connected with Shanghai and include a number  of Handbooks for travellers and residents. Pdf downloads.


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 12:53, 12 May 2015

Shanghai
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Pudong Waterfront, Shanghai
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Presidency:
Coordinates: 31.202462°N, 121.49743°E
Altitude: 4 m (13 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Shanghai
State/Province: Shanghai Metropolitan Area
Country: China
Transport links

Shanghai, the largest centre of commerce and finance in China, is situated at the mouth of the Yangtse River. First opened as a treaty port following the 1st China War, it became a multinational business hub by the 1930s.

History

Capture of Shanghai 1842
Battle of Shanghai 1860

Records

  • Shanghai Ancestors from China Coast Family History, Chinese Customs Project, University of Bristol has various information, including a number of useful databases, on its website which may assist in the search for European ancestors. These databases include a searchable named index of Chinese probates, cemetery information and directory extracts. Also includes an alphabetical database of names for Shanghai Municipal Police.

External links

Historical books online

References