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*[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
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double. This company had an office in Shanghai.
*[https://archive.org/details/sketchesinaround00clarrich ''Sketches in and around Shanghai etc''] [by J D Clark] 1894. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sketchesinaround00clarrich ''Sketches in and around Shanghai etc''] [by J D Clark] 1894. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023494986 ''Shanghai, by Night and Day , Volume I''] 1902. The sketches originally appeared in the ''Shanghai Mercury''. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023494986 ''Shanghai, by Night and Day , Volume I''] 1902. The sketches originally appeared in the ''Shanghai Mercury''. Archive.org

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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Military

  • For a British Army overview, see China.

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]

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
  • 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.

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

Historical books online

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 [4]

References

  1. "Tales of Old Shanghai - cultures - Shanghai Volunteer Corps" earnshaw.com
  2. The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby shanghailander.net
  3. Page from Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers 2004 Google Books
  4. Books of the Week: Morning Tribune, 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg