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China

Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the British Library - Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, IOR N/9.
China: Sources in the India Office Records Guide to records at the British Library
British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985 by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the British Library. Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This link lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484)

CHina Wikipedia
China Coast Family History Website of University of Bristol - project for "locating details about foreign residents in the Chinese treaty ports (excluding Hong Kong). As well as pointing to the location of various public records (probate details, marriage, birth and death registers) it contains a number of cemetery lists and other lists culled from public records and printed sources".
University of Bristol’s Visualising China Blog is "a web-based resource that allows users to explore more than 9,000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1870 and 1950".
- Who took the photographs? by Robert Bickers August 19, 2013
Great War Forum thread Wei-hai-wei and Liu Kung Tao, then and now. Britain leased this area 1898-1930.There was a naval depot and a garrison of British troops.

Article in the Asiatic Journal, Volume 13, January-June 1822. "A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated":
- Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . pages 1-11
- Section 2 The continental kingdoms of Siam, Cochin-China [Southern Vietnam], Tonquin [Northern Vietnam], Pegu [Burma], and Ava [Burma]. pages 11-20,
- Section 3 Japan and China pages 105-118
- Section 4 China pages 209 -220
Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1835 by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926 Digital Books from GIPE, Pune. Pdfs to download.

Travels in South-Eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one. Book 2 with index follows page 276 of Book 1 Google Books. A chapter on China commences page 141 of book 2

Restricted access online books are available at the website China Through Western Eyes , a digital initiative from the University of Hong Kong Libraries. Covers the period until 1911, although the date of publication may be later. Browse the titles. Includes titles about missionary work. Unfortunately this collection is no longer publicly available. For the collections publicly available, see Digital Initiatives
Who's Who in the Far East, 1906-7, June Archive.org
Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918 Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org

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 *Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials at the [[British Library]] - Macao and Whampoa [Canton] 1820-1833, '''IOR N/9'''.
 *[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/china/guidesources/ China: Sources in the India Office Records] Guide to records at the [[British Library]]
+*''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is  available at the [[British Library]]. Includes lists such as “List of Known Recipients of the Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894” and “List of Officers who served with the Hong Kong Regiment 1892-1902”. This [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/uk.people.ex-forces/v3LqubdrU1k link] lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484)
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