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*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. As a member of the Malayan Civil Service from 1921, he was soon after sent to Canton and Peking to study Chinese from [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/100 page 101].
*[https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni00snow/page/n5 ''Journey to the Beginning''] by Edgar Snow 1958. [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/JourneyToAWar/page/n1 ''Journey To A War''] by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood 1939 Archive.org. Travel diary of a trip to China in 1938, after the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesfromsouthch00alle ''Tales from the South China Seas : images of the British in South-East Asia in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1984. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries. Archive.org Lending Library. Contains limited accounts about China. For a similar book with accounts about China, see ''The Lion and the Dragon: British Voices from the China Coast'' by Christopher Cook 1985, not available online but available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011027097
