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==Records==
==Records==
*[https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History,  and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories. Look under Records for the databases specifically about Shanghai, including Municipal Policeman and Shanghai’s refugees, 1944.
*[https://www.chinafamilies.net China Families], previously called China Coast Family History,  and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories. Look under Records for the databases specifically about Shanghai, including Municipal Policeman and Shanghai’s refugees, 1944.
*The FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes "Cemetery records of old and new cemetery, 1859-1899 and Seaman's cemetery, Pootung, in Shanghai, China, 1859-1879" [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/76774 catalogue entry] microfilm 418134 which has been digitised and may be viewed at a [[FamilySearch Centres|FamilySearch Centre]].
*The FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes "Cemetery records of old and new cemetery, 1859-1899 and Seaman's cemetery, Pootung, in Shanghai, China, 1859-1879" [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/76774 catalogue entry] microfilm 418134 which has been digitised and may be viewed at a [[FamilySearch Centres|FamilySearch Centre]] or FamilySearch Affiliate Library (as at 2021/03/25).
*[https://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/shanghaicops.pdf Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of the Shanghai Municipal Police Files 1894-1949] library.uoregon.edu
*[https://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/shanghaicops.pdf Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of the Shanghai Municipal Police Files 1894-1949] library.uoregon.edu
:The SMP files represent a large portion of the archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai's former International Settlement. This force was established shortly after the formation in 1854 of the settlement's presiding body, the Shanghai Municipal Council. The files are, for the most part, the records of the SMP Special Branch, which investigated and reported on alleged subversive activities and maintained peace and stability in the International Settlement. The time period covered by the SMP files extends from 1894 to 1949, The collection is housed [at the time of the guide] in the Military Archives Division of the National Archives, Washington, DC.
:The SMP files represent a large portion of the archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai's former International Settlement. This force was established shortly after the formation in 1854 of the settlement's presiding body, the Shanghai Municipal Council. The files are, for the most part, the records of the SMP Special Branch, which investigated and reported on alleged subversive activities and maintained peace and stability in the International Settlement. The time period covered by the SMP files extends from 1894 to 1949, The collection is housed [at the time of the guide] in the Military Archives Division of the National Archives, Washington, DC.


==Also see==
*[[China]]
*[[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#Other Asian publications|Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories : Other Asian publications]]. 
:Information about  the  English language Chinese newspaper database ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection; databases for ''The North-China Herald'' and ''North China Daily News'' published in Shanghai. A few examples are available, see [[Shanghai#Historical books online|Historical books online]], below.
==Military==
==Military==
*For a  British Army overview, see [[China]].
*For a  British Army overview, see [[China]].
*For the Shanghai Contingent who volunteered for the British Army in 1914, see [[China (First World War)]].
===Shanghai Volunteer Corps ===
===Shanghai Volunteer Corps ===
A reserve force in time of emergency in the International Settlement. By the 1930s, the Volunteers were a truly international force, with American, English, Scottish, Chinese, Italian, Jewish, Portuguese, Filipino and White Russian units. C  1937 it consisted of one professional battalion of young White Russians, superbly disciplined and impeccably turned out in British Army uniforms. The other companies were manned by volunteers from the civilian population. There was 'A' Company formed by Britons of pure-white descent. 'B' Company contained Eurasians. 'C' Company was the Chinese unit.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183953/www.talesofoldchina.com/shanghai/law/t-volu.htm  "Shanghai Volunteer Corps"] talesofoldchina.com, now archived,  quoting  an excerpt from ''Sin City'', by Ralph Shaw, 1976, originally published in the UK as ''Sweet and Sour'' 1973, published in USA as ''China Nights'' 1974. 1976 edition is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01012684846 .  Ralph Shaw  was sent to Shanghai as part of the UK military force,  then became journalist then night editor, of the ''North China Daily News'', see [http://shanghailander.net/2008/03/sin-city/ ''Sin City''] shanghailander.net. </ref>
A reserve force in time of emergency in the International Settlement. By the 1930s, the Volunteers were a truly international force, with American, English, Scottish, Chinese, Italian, Jewish, Portuguese, Filipino and White Russian units. C  1937 it consisted of one professional battalion of young White Russians, superbly disciplined and impeccably turned out in British Army uniforms. The other companies were manned by volunteers from the civilian population. There was 'A' Company formed by Britons of pure-white descent. 'B' Company contained Eurasians. 'C' Company was the Chinese unit.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183953/www.talesofoldchina.com/shanghai/law/t-volu.htm  "Shanghai Volunteer Corps"] talesofoldchina.com, now archived,  quoting  an excerpt from ''Sin City'', by Ralph Shaw, 1976, originally published in the UK as ''Sweet and Sour'' 1973, published in USA as ''China Nights'' 1974. 1976 edition is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01012684846 .  Ralph Shaw  was sent to Shanghai as part of the UK military force,  then became journalist then night editor, of the ''North China Daily News'', see [http://shanghailander.net/2008/03/sin-city/ ''Sin City''] shanghailander.net. </ref>
There was a Shanghai Volunteer Corps Armoured Car Company and  SVC Artillery.<ref>Mikhail et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/292732-any-thoughts-about-this-group-photo/ Any thoughts about this group photo?] ''Great War Forum'' 25 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.</ref>
====Regimental histories====
====Regimental histories====
*''Eighty Five Years of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps'' by I I Kounin, published Shanghai c 1938. Available at the Imperial War Museums, catalogue number LBY 96 / 1685
*''Eighty Five Years of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps'' by I I Kounin, published Shanghai c 1938. Available at the Imperial War Museums, catalogue number LBY 96 / 1685
*Article: "Notes On The Shanghai Volunteer Corps" by A. McKenzie Annand ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 53, No. 214 (Summer 1975), pp. 98-102.
*Article: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44223088?seq=1 "Notes On The Shanghai Volunteer Corps"] by A. McKenzie Annand ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 53, No. 214 (Summer 1975), pp. 98-102. jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free.
*Article [http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t041223.html The Jewish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Compared With Other Jewish Diaspora Fighting Units] by Benis M. Frank Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1992 vlib.us. Scroll towards the end of the article for details of the Jewish Company, SVC


===Shanghai Defence Force===
===Shanghai Defence Force===
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*[http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA21029553&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=75b940f0  "Shanghailanders: the formation and identity of the British settler community in Shanghai, 1843-1937"] by Robert Bickers ''Past & Present. 159.1 (May 1998)'': p161+. galegroup.com
*[http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA21029553&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=75b940f0  "Shanghailanders: the formation and identity of the British settler community in Shanghai, 1843-1937"] by Robert Bickers ''Past & Present. 159.1 (May 1998)'': p161+. galegroup.com
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20120425051943/http://yangziman.blog.com/2011/10/04/shanghais-lost-foreigner-cemeteries/  Shanghai’s Lost Foreigner Cemeteries] by  Eric N. Danielson 10 April 2011 from his website [http://web.archive.org/web/20120616084651/http://yangziman.blog.com YangziMan: Adventures in China], now an archived website.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20120425051943/http://yangziman.blog.com/2011/10/04/shanghais-lost-foreigner-cemeteries/  Shanghai’s Lost Foreigner Cemeteries] by  Eric N. Danielson 10 April 2011 from his website [http://web.archive.org/web/20120616084651/http://yangziman.blog.com YangziMan: Adventures in China], now an archived website.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20191029182002/https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/831024.shtml "Digging up the past"] by  Zhang Yu 2013. globaltimes.cn, archived. Cemeteries for foreigners in Shanghai.
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2405371 Bubbling Well Road Cemetery] Find A Grave. List of names.
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2405371 Bubbling Well Road Cemetery] Find A Grave. List of names.
*[http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Asset/Preview/dbImage_ID-1834_No-1.jpeg  Photograph: Bubbling Well Cemetery, Shanghai] from  [http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Photos/Images?ID=1834 www.virtualshanghai.net]
*[http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Asset/Preview/dbImage_ID-1834_No-1.jpeg  Photograph: Bubbling Well Cemetery, Shanghai] from  [http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Photos/Images?ID=1834 www.virtualshanghai.net]
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*[http://www.academia.edu/1522560/The_Raj_on_Nanjing_Road_Sikh_Policemen_in_Treaty-Port_Shanghai "The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai"] by Isabella Jackson ''Modern Asian Studies'' March 2013, pp 1 – 33
*[http://www.academia.edu/1522560/The_Raj_on_Nanjing_Road_Sikh_Policemen_in_Treaty-Port_Shanghai "The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai"] by Isabella Jackson ''Modern Asian Studies'' March 2013, pp 1 – 33
*[http://avezink.livejournal.com/24214.html Doctor Smolnikoff's memoir: My Sikhs] : Translated extracts from Victor Smolnikoff 's memoir of the 1940s in Shanghai (written in the 1970s in Russia). He worked as a doctor until 1954 in Shanghai, when he and his family were repatriated to the Soviet Union. avezink.livejournal.com. Most Sikhs were in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Police.
*[http://avezink.livejournal.com/24214.html Doctor Smolnikoff's memoir: My Sikhs] : Translated extracts from Victor Smolnikoff 's memoir of the 1940s in Shanghai (written in the 1970s in Russia). He worked as a doctor until 1954 in Shanghai, when he and his family were repatriated to the Soviet Union. avezink.livejournal.com. Most Sikhs were in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Police.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160602212006/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123631167597549481 "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'"] by Hugo Restall March 6, 2009 ''The Wall Street Journal'', now an archived page. Expat writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hugo Restall was then editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Personal memoirs mentioned which are available at the British Library include ''Hunting Opium and Other Scents'' by Maurice Springfield (British assistant police commissioner) UIN: BLL01003468563 ; ''Shanghai Saga'' by John Pal (an officer of Chinese Customs) UIN: BLL01002750919 ; ''Stone - paper - scissors : Shanghai, 1921-1945 : an autobiography'' by the Stead sisters (daughters of a British real-estate man) UIN: BLL01008149019 . ''I Didn't Make a Million'' by  Whitey Smith first published 1956 in Manila, republished with the additional title wording  ''How Jazz Came to China''. Details of the book, including extracts.<ref>[http://shanghaisojourns.net/blog/2017/5/19/the-story-and-the-songs-of-jazz-bandleader-whitey-smith-the-man-who-taught-china-to-dance-in-shanghai-1920s-1930s "Jazz Bandleader Whitey Smith, “The Man Who Taught China to Dance” in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s"] shanghaisojourns.net</ref>
:There is an English language version of his memoir ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician'' by Victor  Smolnikoff  ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8577807931 <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Victor-Smolnikoff/dp/B08R7V6XBF?language=en_US ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician''] with some sample pages available. amazon.com</ref>
*William E Fairbairn was with the Shanghai Municipal Police for over 30 years from 1907 where he developed a system of Self Defence. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Fairbairn William E. Fairbairn] Wikipedia. [https://www.myselfdefensetraining.com/history-of-self-defense-fairbairns-defendu/ "History of Self Defense: Fairbairn's DEFENDU"] September 21, 2015 myselfdefensetraining.com.
: W E Fairbairn's first book  ''Defendu. Scientific Self-Defence'' was published in Shanghai in 1926 and is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001192954, along with a number of his other titles, as is a biography ''The legend of W.E. Fairbairn : gentleman & warrior : the Shanghai years''  research by Peter Robins & Nicholas Tyler ; compiled & edited by Paul R. Child 2004 UIN: BLL01013468205. One volume, first published 1931, is available online, refer below.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160602212006/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123631167597549481 "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'"] by Hugo Restall March 6, 2009 ''The Wall Street Journal'', now an archived page. Expat writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hugo Restall was then editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Personal memoirs mentioned which are available at the British Library include ''Hunting Opium and Other Scents'' by Maurice Springfield (British assistant police commissioner) UIN: BLL01003468563 ([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dXZFAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]) ; ''Shanghai Saga'' by John Pal (an officer of Chinese Customs) UIN: BLL01002750919 ([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LnAJAQAAIAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]) ; ''Stone - paper - scissors : Shanghai, 1921-1945 : an autobiography'' by the Stead sisters (daughters of a British real-estate man) UIN: BLL01008149019 . ''I Didn't Make a Million'' by  Whitey Smith first published 1956 in Manila, republished with the additional title wording  ''How Jazz Came to China''. Details of the book, including extracts.<ref>[http://shanghaisojourns.net/blog/2017/5/19/the-story-and-the-songs-of-jazz-bandleader-whitey-smith-the-man-who-taught-china-to-dance-in-shanghai-1920s-1930s "Jazz Bandleader Whitey Smith, “The Man Who Taught China to Dance” in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s"] shanghaisojourns.net. [https://issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary/docs/rhc-013574 A few sample pages] including front cover and Introduction. issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary.</ref>
: See [[Hong Kong]] for more details of ''The Breach in the Wall: A Memoir of Old China'' by Enid Saunders Candlin (born in Shanghai, daughter of a tea merchant)  1973 UIN: BLL01000594031
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/26/top-10-books-about-old-shanghai "Top 10 books about Old Shanghai"] by Paul French  26 September 2018 ''The Guardian''. Old in this article refers to the 1930s onwards.
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/26/top-10-books-about-old-shanghai "Top 10 books about Old Shanghai"] by Paul French  26 September 2018 ''The Guardian''. Old in this article refers to the 1930s onwards.
*Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dba67SLBQzM Old Shanghai 1930s] YouTube video.
*Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dba67SLBQzM Old Shanghai 1930s] YouTube video.
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*Also see [[China#Historical books online|China - Historical books online]].
*Also see [[China#Historical books online|China - Historical books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217809 ''Some pages in the history of Shanghai, 1842-1856 : a paper read before the China Society on May 23, 1916''] by W R Carles 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217809 ''Some pages in the history of Shanghai, 1842-1856 : a paper read before the China Society on May 23, 1916''] by W R Carles 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/northchinaherald?&sort=date  ''The North China Herald''] Collection 1850-1941. Archive.org. Published in Shanghai as the weekly edition of the ''North-China Daily News''. Searchable as a collection. There perhaps may be additional editions available outside of this collection, also on Archive.org.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082484118?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Shanghai Almanac and Directory 1856'']. Incomplete, only to page 126. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082484118?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Shanghai Almanac and Directory 1856'']. Incomplete, only to page 126. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JAYMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Shanghae Almanac… and Miscellany 1856''] (Catalogued as Shanghai Almanac for ... and Commercial Guide) Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JAYMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Shanghae Almanac… and Miscellany 1856''] (Catalogued as Shanghai Almanac for ... and Commercial Guide) Google Books
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**[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
*''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/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Desk+Hong+List%22%29&sort=date ''Shanghai Directory''] or similar title, mainly 1924-1941 broken range. Archive.org
* Searchable, but not viewable [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8xAbAAAAIAAJ ''Shantung Road Cemetery, Shanghai, 1846-1868: With Notes about Pootung Seamen's Cemetery [and<nowiki>]</nowiki> Soldiers' Cemetery''] by E. S. Elliston 1946 Google Books. This book was possibly filmed from the collection of Stanford University which holds this book.
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006044244 ''Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society''] Multiple volumes from 1860 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023927977/page/n5/mode/2up ''Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 25 June, 1863 : for, "Copy of the correspondence between the military authorities at Shanghai and the War Office respecting the insalubrity of Shanghai as a station for European troops:" "And, numerical return of sickness and mortality of the troops of all arms at Shanghai, from the year 1860 to the latest date, showing the per-centage upon the total strength"''] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489580 ''Shanghai Considered Socially. A Lecture  by H Lang''], 2nd edition 1875. Archive.org   
*[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
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*[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/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/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/shanghai-war-book/mode/2up ''The Shanghai War Book. Being a register of many of the Britons and some of their allies on service from China with a few of those from Japan including a roll of honour ...''] published  December 1915. Archive.org. Lists of those serving, wounded and died.
*[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/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906 Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India (Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, “Benares, Lucknow, Mirzapur and Lahore”), Rangoon, Singapore, Penang and '''Shanghai''', and of the major cities in Egypt. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 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  
**[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n128/mode/1up Plan of the Foreign Settlements, Shanghai]
**[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n128/mode/1up Plan of the Foreign Settlements, Shanghai]
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20090221131015/http://earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-library.htm Online Library] from the archived website ''Tales of Old Shanghai''. Note, most of the books appear to have text. If the book you select does not appear to contain text, try clicking on an earlier (or later) archived link, and text may be available.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20090221131015/http://earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-library.htm Online Library] from the archived website ''Tales of Old Shanghai''. Note, most of the books appear to have text. If the book you select does not appear to contain text, try clicking on an earlier (or later) archived link, and text may be available.
**One of the books available to read is [http://web.archive.org/web/20010529063420/http://www.earnshaw.com:80/shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/baby/t-baby.htm ''The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby''],  by  Elsie McCormick  first published c 1922, or earlier. A  review<ref>[http://shanghailander.net/2008/09/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby/ ''The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby''] shanghailander.net</ref> says "The writing is easy to read and very humorous. It is a great introduction to old Shanghai, but also contains many details of the period that make in an invaluable resource for research on this topic".
**One of the books available to read is [http://web.archive.org/web/20010529063420/http://www.earnshaw.com:80/shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/baby/t-baby.htm ''The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby''],  by  Elsie McCormick  first published c 1922, or earlier. A  review<ref>[http://shanghailander.net/2008/09/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby/ ''The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby''] shanghailander.net</ref> says "The writing is easy to read and very humorous. It is a great introduction to old Shanghai, but also contains many details of the period that make in an invaluable resource for research on this topic".
*: Also available as selected extracts (not complete text) in ''Maclean’s “Canada’s National Magazine”'' 1 February 1924 to 1 April 1924. With illustrations by Lou Skouce. [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/2/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby  1], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/2/15/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 2], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/3/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 3], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/3/15/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 4], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/4/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby  5] macleans.ca
*: Also available as part of ''Audacious Angles Of China'' (see above) and as selected extracts (not complete text) in ''Maclean’s “Canada’s National Magazine”'' 1 February 1924 to 1 April 1924. With illustrations by Lou Skouce. [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/2/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby  1], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/2/15/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 2], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/3/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 3], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/3/15/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 4], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/4/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby  5] macleans.ca
*[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
*[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1743 ''Shanghai: its municipality and the Chinese; being the history of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and its relations with the Chinese, the practice of the International Mixed Court, and the inauguration and constitution of the Shanghai Provisional Court''] by Anatol M. Kotenev 1927 virtualshanghai.net. Also available [http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books?ID=1743 Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique /Asian 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&pg=PT347  Page from ''Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai''] by Robert Bickers 2004 Google Books</ref>
:See [[China#General|China]] for Kotenev's 1931 book ''New Lamps for Old''.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822003666500?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Shanghai Problem''] by William Crane Johnstone 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oTy44G4c9ZMC&pg=PP1 ''Big Trifles and Little People: Memoirs of a Russian Nobleman''] by Anatol M. Kotenev 2000. Sample pages Google Books.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/fairbairnw.e.scientificselfdefencezlib.org/page/n1/mode/1up ''Scientific Self Defence''] by W E Fairbairn  first published 1931 (catalogued 1942) Archive.org. Title page states "The Official Text Book for the Shanghai Municipal Police and Hong Kong Police".
*[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. HathiTrust Digital Library
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-59482203 4 online editions of ''North-China Sunday News Magazine Supplement''] dated 7, 14, 21, 28 February 1932. Click on "Browse this collection" for the 4 issues. The content includes  war. Including
**Images [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-59482216/view?partId=nla.obj-59482551#page/n3/mode/1up "Mobilisation of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps During the Past Week] page 4 ''North-China Sunday News Magazine Supplement''  7 February 1932. National Library of Australia.
*[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-59030053 ''The Municipal Gazette Shanghai''] 2 editions, Thursday February 4, 1926 and Friday March 25, 1938. National Library of Australia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012846062?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai, the Paradise of Adventurers''] by G E Miller (Pseudonym) Diplomat 1937 HathiTrust 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> Page (247?) from [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=H4y8q_Zk0g4C&lpg=PT347&pg=PP1 ''Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai''] by Robert Bickers 2004 Sample pages Google Books, however the particular page is no longer available online.</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822003666500?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Shanghai Problem''] by William Crane Johnstone 1937 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/JourneyToAWar/page/n225 "Chapter 10. Shanghai May 25-June 12  [1938<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 237, ''Journey To A War'' by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood 1939 Archive.org.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020814672?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai and Tientsin, with special reference to foreign interests''] by F C Jones 1940. HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghaicityfors009753mbp ''Shanghai: City For Sale''] Ernest O. Hauser 1940 Archive.org. Elsewhere, this book is stated to contain  factual errors.<ref> See article "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents'..."  by  Hugo Restall, in External links , above.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghaicityfors009753mbp ''Shanghai: City For Sale''] Ernest O. Hauser 1940 Archive.org. Elsewhere, this book is stated to contain  factual errors.<ref> See article "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents'..."  by  Hugo Restall, in External links , above.</ref>
*[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 HathiTrust 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 HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni00snow/page/n5 ''Journey to the Beginning''] by Edgar Snow 1958. Includes [https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni00snow/page/14 Chapter 4 Shanghai]  page 15,  where he arrived in 1928. [https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni0000snow File 2: 1972 reprint].  Archive.org  Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Snow Edgar Snow] Wikipedia. Snow was an American journalist who lived in China for many years from 1928, best known for his book, ''Red Star Over China'' (1937), an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.
*[https://archive.org/details/yellowcreekstory0000davi/page/n7  ''Yellow Creek : the Story of Shanghai''] by J V  Davidson-Houston  1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/yellowcreekstory0000davi/page/n7  ''Yellow Creek : the Story of Shanghai''] by J V  Davidson-Houston  1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghai00harr ''Shanghai''] by Harriet  Sergeant 1998, originally published 1991. Shanghai in the 1920s and !930s. Archive.org Lending Library. Based on many interviews with past residents.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinesecitybetwe00chin/mode/2up ''The Chinese city between two worlds''] edited by Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner 1974.  Includes chapters on Shanghai and [[Canton]]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/easternbankinges0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up  ''Eastern banking : essays in the history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation''] edited by Frank H H King 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghai00harr ''Shanghai''] by Harriet  Sergeant 1998, originally published 1991. Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Archive.org Lending Library. Based on many interviews with past residents.
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghairefugeme00hepp/page/n3  ''Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto''] by Ernest G. Heppner 1993. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghairefugeme00hepp/page/n3  ''Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto''] by Ernest G. Heppner 1993. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/strangehavenjewi0000tobi ''Strange haven : a Jewish childhood in wartime Shanghai''] by Sigmund Tobias 1999. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/voicesfromshangh0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''Voices from Shanghai : Jewish exiles in wartime China''] edited and translated by Irene Eber 2008. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
:[http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books?ID=1958 ''The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime refugees in Shanghai''] by Marcia R.Ristaino 2008. Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique /Asian Digital Library. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/jacquinot-safe-zone-wartime-refugees-in-shanghai-by-marcia-r-ristaino-stanford-ca-stanford-university-press-2008-pp-224-isbn-10-0804757933-13-9780804757935/AB4E32EB37732BBC3E1A10D0047C0FEF Page 1 of a review about the book]. Jacquinot, a Jesuit priest, provided refuge for Chinese civilians.
*[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?of=1&os=a E Library, Virtual Shanghai] including
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1677 ''Four months of war; a pen and picture record of the hostilities between Japan and China in an around Shanghai, from August 9th till December 20th, 1937, from the press of the North-China Daily News''] 1937. Also available [http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books?ID=1677  Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique /Asian Digital Library]
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1 ''Streets of Shanghai. A history in itself'']  by A H Gordon 1941.
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1264 Programme of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Centenary Dinner held at The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club on Friday, 2nd April 1954], including list of SVC Commandants, mobilizations, brief history, menu, Roll of Members, plan of the Battle of Muddy Flat, and text of 'Maloo Memoires'.
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1676 ''The Sino-Western miscellany : being historical notes about foreign life in China. Vol. 2, The origins of the roads and road names in foreign Shanghai: the French concession''] by JH Haan 1993
*[http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique/ Asian Digital Library] Includes  English language books on Shanghai. There appears to be some connection with ''Virtual Shanghai'', see previous website, with at least some overlap.
*[https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7870085f&chunk.id=d0e3969&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=ucpress "Chapter Four Shanghai"]  page 239 ''Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars'' by Michael B. Miller  1994. UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004. A transcription. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=X2eTBtFWQdUC&pg=PP1 Sample pages only] Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/cityofdevilstwom0000fren/mode/2up ''City of Devils : the two men who ruled the underworld of old Shanghai''] by Paul French 2019, first published 2018. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:Paul French is the author of many books on the "old" (1930s) period in China, including  ''Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day'', published 2017 [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Bloody_Saturday_Shanghai_s_Darkest_Day_P/gsEvDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover  Sample pages Google Books]. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city. For additional books by French, see [[China#General|China - Historical books online - General]].
*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.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Shanghai%29&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&sort=date Books including ''Shanghai'' in the title] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Shanghai%29&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&sort=date Books including ''Shanghai'' in the title] Archive.org.
*Fiction
*Fiction
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe  1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 Shanghai, Toby Warren  is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a  (fictious) Royal Navy  river gunboat. The author served on HMS "Scarab" (river gunboat) in 1919-1920.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16210/page/n7/mode/2up ''Juan In China'']  by Eric Linklater. 1961 edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. Elsewhere<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Victor-Smolnikoff/dp/B08R7V6XBF?language=en_US ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician''] by Victor  Smolnikoff  page 10 of the sample pages available in "Look inside". amazon.com</ref> it is stated "The Japanese artillery during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937, well described by Eric Linklater in his novel “ Juan in China” (practically every word is true)…"
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe  1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 Shanghai, Toby Warren  is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a  (fictitous) Royal Navy  river gunboat. The author served on HMS "Scarab" (river gunboat) in 1919-1920.
*: Note, this may be the American title. Appears to be the same book as  ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
*: Note, this may be the American title. Appears to be the same book as  ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
:*''Empire of the Sun'' by J G  Ballard, first published 1984. [https://archive.org/details/empireofsun00ball/page/n1 Book File 1] 1994 reprint, [https://archive.org/details/empireofsunball00ball  Book file 2]  1985 reprint.  Archive.org Lending Library. A novel based on the author’s experiences in Shanghai during the Second World War, including internment from 1942 to 1945.
:*''Empire of the Sun'' by J G  Ballard, first published 1984. [https://archive.org/details/empireofsun00ball/page/n1 Book File 1] 1994 reprint, [https://archive.org/details/empireofsunball00ball  Book file 2]  1985 reprint.  Archive.org Lending Library. A novel based on the author’s experiences in Shanghai during the Second World War, including internment from 1942 to 1945.

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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

  • China Families, previously called China Coast Family History, and part of the Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol. The website provides "a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in China between the 1850s and 1940s. These records have been drawn from government department lists, legal and diplomatic records, cemetery lists, and during research undertaken for a number of projects on the history of modern China and of the foreign relations of China". There is a Search facility and links to a number of online Directories. Look under Records for the databases specifically about Shanghai, including Municipal Policeman and Shanghai’s refugees, 1944.
  • The FamilySearch Catalog for microfilm/digitised microfilm records includes "Cemetery records of old and new cemetery, 1859-1899 and Seaman's cemetery, Pootung, in Shanghai, China, 1859-1879" catalogue entry microfilm 418134 which has been digitised and may be viewed at a FamilySearch Centre or FamilySearch Affiliate Library (as at 2021/03/25).
  • Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition of the Shanghai Municipal Police Files 1894-1949 library.uoregon.edu
The SMP files represent a large portion of the archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai's former International Settlement. This force was established shortly after the formation in 1854 of the settlement's presiding body, the Shanghai Municipal Council. The files are, for the most part, the records of the SMP Special Branch, which investigated and reported on alleged subversive activities and maintained peace and stability in the International Settlement. The time period covered by the SMP files extends from 1894 to 1949, The collection is housed [at the time of the guide] in the Military Archives Division of the National Archives, Washington, DC.

Also see

Information about the English language Chinese newspaper database ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection; databases for The North-China Herald and North China Daily News published in Shanghai. A few examples are available, see Historical books online, below.

Military

  • For a British Army overview, see China.
  • For the Shanghai Contingent who volunteered for the British Army in 1914, see China (First World War).

Shanghai Volunteer Corps

A reserve force in time of emergency in the International Settlement. By the 1930s, the Volunteers were a truly international force, with American, English, Scottish, Chinese, Italian, Jewish, Portuguese, Filipino and White Russian units. C 1937 it consisted of one professional battalion of young White Russians, superbly disciplined and impeccably turned out in British Army uniforms. The other companies were manned by volunteers from the civilian population. There was 'A' Company formed by Britons of pure-white descent. 'B' Company contained Eurasians. 'C' Company was the Chinese unit.[1]

There was a Shanghai Volunteer Corps Armoured Car Company and SVC Artillery.[2]

Regimental histories

Shanghai Defence Force

The Shanghai Defence Force was a tri-service military formation established by the British Government to protect European nationals and their property in Shanghai from Chinese nationalist forces during a period of tension in 1927.

National Archives catalogue reference Despatch of Shanghai Defence Force to Shanghai in 1927. FO 371/63436

External links

"Digging up the past" by Zhang Yu 2013. globaltimes.cn, archived. Cemeteries for foreigners in Shanghai.
There is an English language version of his memoir The Diary of a Shanghai Physician by Victor Smolnikoff ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8577807931 [3]
W E Fairbairn's first book Defendu. Scientific Self-Defence was published in Shanghai in 1926 and is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001192954, along with a number of his other titles, as is a biography The legend of W.E. Fairbairn : gentleman & warrior : the Shanghai years research by Peter Robins & Nicholas Tyler ; compiled & edited by Paul R. Child 2004 UIN: BLL01013468205. One volume, first published 1931, is available online, refer below.
  • "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'" by Hugo Restall March 6, 2009 The Wall Street Journal, now an archived page. Expat writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hugo Restall was then editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Personal memoirs mentioned which are available at the British Library include Hunting Opium and Other Scents by Maurice Springfield (British assistant police commissioner) UIN: BLL01003468563 (Searchable, but not viewable Google Books) ; Shanghai Saga by John Pal (an officer of Chinese Customs) UIN: BLL01002750919 (Searchable, but not viewable Google Books) ; Stone - paper - scissors : Shanghai, 1921-1945 : an autobiography by the Stead sisters (daughters of a British real-estate man) UIN: BLL01008149019 . I Didn't Make a Million by Whitey Smith first published 1956 in Manila, republished with the additional title wording How Jazz Came to China. Details of the book, including extracts.[4]
See Hong Kong for more details of The Breach in the Wall: A Memoir of Old China by Enid Saunders Candlin (born in Shanghai, daughter of a tea merchant) 1973 UIN: BLL01000594031

Historical books online

1923 edition includes as "Part II": The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby, from page 209. Also see next item. Archive.org
See China for Kotenev's 1931 book New Lamps for Old.
Big Trifles and Little People: Memoirs of a Russian Nobleman by Anatol M. Kotenev 2000. Sample pages Google Books.
Strange haven : a Jewish childhood in wartime Shanghai by Sigmund Tobias 1999. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
Voices from Shanghai : Jewish exiles in wartime China edited and translated by Irene Eber 2008. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime refugees in Shanghai by Marcia R.Ristaino 2008. Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique /Asian Digital Library. Page 1 of a review about the book. Jacquinot, a Jesuit priest, provided refuge for Chinese civilians.
Paul French is the author of many books on the "old" (1930s) period in China, including Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day, published 2017 Sample pages Google Books. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city. For additional books by French, see China - Historical books online - General.
  • Digital 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.
  • Books including Shanghai in the title Archive.org.
  • Fiction
    • Juan In China by Eric Linklater. 1961 edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. Elsewhere[8] it is stated "The Japanese artillery during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937, well described by Eric Linklater in his novel “ Juan in China” (practically every word is true)…"
    • Yangtze Skipper, by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 Shanghai, Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictitous) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author served on HMS "Scarab" (river gunboat) in 1919-1920.
    Note, this may be the American title. Appears to be the same book as River of Golden Sand by Thomas Woodrooffe. A review of River of Golden Sand [9]
  • Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard, first published 1984. Book File 1 1994 reprint, Book file 2 1985 reprint. Archive.org Lending Library. A novel based on the author’s experiences in Shanghai during the Second World War, including internment from 1942 to 1945.

References

  1. "Shanghai Volunteer Corps" talesofoldchina.com, now archived, quoting an excerpt from Sin City, by Ralph Shaw, 1976, originally published in the UK as Sweet and Sour 1973, published in USA as China Nights 1974. 1976 edition is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012684846 . Ralph Shaw was sent to Shanghai as part of the UK military force, then became journalist then night editor, of the North China Daily News, see Sin City shanghailander.net.
  2. Mikhail et al. Any thoughts about this group photo? Great War Forum 25 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  3. The Diary of a Shanghai Physician with some sample pages available. amazon.com
  4. "Jazz Bandleader Whitey Smith, “The Man Who Taught China to Dance” in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s" shanghaisojourns.net. A few sample pages including front cover and Introduction. issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary.
  5. The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby shanghailander.net
  6. Page (247?) from Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers 2004 Sample pages Google Books, however the particular page is no longer available online.
  7. See article "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents'..." by Hugo Restall, in External links , above.
  8. The Diary of a Shanghai Physician by Victor Smolnikoff page 10 of the sample pages available in "Look inside". amazon.com
  9. Books of the Week: Morning Tribune, 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg