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*[http://www.academia.edu/1522560/The_Raj_on_Nanjing_Road_Sikh_Policemen_in_Treaty-Port_Shanghai "The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai"] by Isabella Jackson ''Modern Asian Studies'' March 2013, pp 1 – 33
*[http://www.academia.edu/1522560/The_Raj_on_Nanjing_Road_Sikh_Policemen_in_Treaty-Port_Shanghai "The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai"] by Isabella Jackson ''Modern Asian Studies'' March 2013, pp 1 – 33
*[http://avezink.livejournal.com/24214.html Doctor Smolnikoff's memoir: My Sikhs] : Translated extracts from Victor Smolnikoff 's memoir of the 1940s in Shanghai (written in the 1970s in Russia). He worked as a doctor until 1954 in Shanghai, when he and his family were repatriated to the Soviet Union. avezink.livejournal.com. Most Sikhs were in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Police.
*[http://avezink.livejournal.com/24214.html Doctor Smolnikoff's memoir: My Sikhs] : Translated extracts from Victor Smolnikoff 's memoir of the 1940s in Shanghai (written in the 1970s in Russia). He worked as a doctor until 1954 in Shanghai, when he and his family were repatriated to the Soviet Union. avezink.livejournal.com. Most Sikhs were in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Police.
*[http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123631167597549481 "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'"] by Hugo Restall March 6, 2009 ''The Wall Street Journal''. Expat writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hugo Restall was then editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review.
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217809 ''Some pages in the history of Shanghai, 1842-1856 : a paper read before the China society on May 23, 1916''] by W R Carles 1916 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082484118?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Shanghai Almanac and Directory 1856'']. Incomplete, only to page 126. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JAYMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Shanghae Almanac… and Miscellany 1856''] (Catalogued as Shanghai Almanac for ... and Commercial Guide) Google Books
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JAYMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT15 List of Foreign Residents at Shanghae August 1855]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924012225185?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Shanghai Almanac for  the Year 1857''] Hathi Trust Digital Library
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924012225185?urlappend=%3Bseq=162 List of Foreign Residents at Shanghai, January 1858]
*[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/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/cu31924023217825 ''Shanghai : a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlements and native city''] by Rev C E Darwent, Minister of Union Church, Shanghai 1904 Archive.org with a  
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217825 ''Shanghai : a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlements and native city''] by Rev C E Darwent, Minister of Union Church, Shanghai 1904 Archive.org with a  
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023217825#page/n282/mode/1up 1904 Map of the Foreign Settlements at Shanghai (in sections)]  
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023217825#page/n282/mode/1up 1904 Map of the Foreign Settlements at Shanghai (in sections)]  
*[https://archive.org/details/ramblesroundshan00kahlrich ''Rambles round Shanghai''] by  William R  Kahler 2nd edition, revised 1905 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/personalreminis00dycegoog ''Personal reminiscences of thirty years' residence in the model settlement Shanghai, 1870-1900''] by Charles M Dyce 1906 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft ''Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft ''Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489606 ''Historic Shanghai''] by C A Montalto de Jesus 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023489606 ''Historic Shanghai''] by C A Montalto de Jesus 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gatewaytochina00unkngoog ''The gateway to China; pictures of Shanghai''] by Mary Ninde Gamewell 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n125/mode/1up "Shanghai"] , page 102 ''The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong'') by Carl Crow. Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org  
*[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n125/mode/1up "Shanghai"] , page 102 ''The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong'') by Carl Crow. Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org  
**[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n128/mode/1up Plan of the Foreign Settlements, Shanghai]
**[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n128/mode/1up Plan of the Foreign Settlements, Shanghai]
*[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. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012846062?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai, the Paradise of Adventurers''] by G E Miller (Pseudonym) Diplomat 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library.  Elsewhere, the author is stated to be Mauricio Fresco, the Mexican Honorary Consul, whose position had long been deeply implicated in the large-scale organized gambling in the city of the 1920s<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=H4y8q_Zk0g4C&lpg=PP1&pg=PT349#v=onepage&q=%22G%20E%20Miller%22&f=false Page from ''Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai''] by Robert Bickers 2004 Google Books</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822003666500?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Shanghai Problem''] by William Crane Johnstone 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020814672?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai and Tientsin, with special reference to foreign interests''] by F C Jones 1940. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghaicityfors009753mbp ''Shanghai: City For Sale''] Ernest O. Hauser 1940 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghaicityfors009753mbp ''Shanghai: City For Sale''] Ernest O. Hauser 1940 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b40448?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Economic Shanghai: Hostage to Politics, 1937-1941''] by Robert W. Barnett 1941 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b658121?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai Lawyer''] by Norwood F. Allman 1943 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*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.  
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Revision as of 09:13, 12 May 2015

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.

External links

Historical books online

References