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:[https://archive.org/details/podcast_rthkbookmarks_paul-french-on-midnight-pek_1000334705726 Paul French on ''Midnight in Peking''] 2013 podcast by Radio Television Hong Kong on Archive.org. One way to listen online is to click on the "Source_url".
:Paul French is the author of many books on the "old" period in China, including ''The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking'' (2013) and ''Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day'', published 2017. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city.
*[https://archive.org/details/insideasia0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''Inside Asia''] by John Gunther 1939. The political situation in the late 1930s. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Chapters on China including
**[https://archive.org/details/insideasia0000unse/page/200/mode/2up Chapter XII "A Song of Soongs"] page 201. Also see the book by Emily Kahn, below.
*[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/in.ernet.dli.2015.157359/page/n5/mode/2up ''Far Eastern War 1937-1941''] by Harold S. Quigley 1942 Archive.org
