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**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 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
*[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]
:See [[China#General|China]] for Kotenev's 1931 book ''New Lamps for Old''.
:[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.39015050791709?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''China's Trial by Fire : the Shanghai War of 1932''] by Donald A Jordan 2001. HathiTrust 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. 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  
*[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  
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*[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/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/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.
:[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?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
**[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=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 Fiday, 2nd April 1954], including list of SVC Commandants, moblizations, 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=1264 Programme of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Centenary Dinner held at The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club on Fiday, 2nd April 1954], including list of SVC Commandants, moblizations, 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
**[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://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.
*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.

Revision as of 06:33, 4 May 2021

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.

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. jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free.

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

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.
  • 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. "Jazz Bandleader Whitey Smith, “The Man Who Taught China to Dance” in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s" shanghaisojourns.net
  3. The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby shanghailander.net
  4. Page from Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers 2004 Google Books
  5. See article "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents'..." by Hugo Restall, in External links , above.
  6. Books of the Week: Morning Tribune, 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg