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<br>1903 U. Basel <nowiki>*</nowiki>
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:There is also ''North China Herald'' Collection 1850-1941 on Archive.org, see Historical books online below.
*For those with access, (refer below) there may be birth, marriage and death notices in online newspapers which are part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection and Japan Times Archives.
*''British and Indian Armies on the China Coast 1785-1985'' by Alan Harfield 1990 is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01009472436 . 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://web.archive.org/web/20231022105837/https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicg/uk.people.ex-forces/c/v3LqubdrU1k link] lists some “Military Commanders of Hong Kong and China” from the book (pages 483-484).
*Names of burials 1842-1857 in the British cemetery on Zhoushan Island [Chusan Island] off the East coast of China, but not specific dates of death, are included in [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/def9b438f5401bdec99066297256390b.pdf "Monument to the Westmoreland Regiment The 55th Regiment of Foot in Dinghai City on Zhoushan Island"] by Keith Stevens and Jennifer Welch ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Vol. 38 (1998), page 383 (12 pages). From [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] hkjo.lib.hku.hk. [https://archive.org/details/monument-zhoushan-island/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160322052706/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/china/guidesources/index.html China: Sources in the India Office Records] Guide to records at the [[British Library]], now an archived webpage.
:Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009539962
*The American pay website NewspaperArchive.com has editions of the ''Japan Advertiser'' 01 January 1920 to 16 September 1922.([https://newspaperarchive.com/browse/jp/13/tokyo/japan-advertiser/ details of issues available]). Previously this database was also available on Findmypast, but it was withdrawn from Findmypast c 2 August 2021, as a licence was not renewed.
*Also see Historical books online below, for some English language Japanese newspapers available on Archive.org. ===Korea===*''Yanghwajin Seoul Foreigners' Cemetery, Korea an informal history, 1890-1984 : with notes on other foreign cemeteries in Korea'' by Donald N. Clark published 1984 in Seoul, Korea, searchable but not viewable at [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Bq8sAAAAMAAJ Google Books]. Available, according to Library Hub Discover, at the [[Society of Genealogists]], London and at Oxford University, also Sheffield and Durham Universities.:[https://www.theseoulguide.com/yanghwajin-foreign-missionary-cemetery/ "Yanghwajin Foreign Missionary Cemetery"] theseoulguide.com. The cemetery is also known as Hapjeong-dong International Cemetery. [https://on-walkabout.net/2009/11/02/on-walkabout-at-yanghwajin-foreigners-cemetery-south-korea/ "On Walkabout at: Yanghwajin Foreigners Cemetery, South Korea"] on-walkabout.net.
==British Army and Navy==
The British Army leased for a time Wei-hai-wei (a fine natural harbour) on the mainland and Liu Kung Tao island. There was a garrison of British Troops.
*[http://www.academia.edu/1532523/Edge_of_Empires_The_British_Museum_Magazine_ "Edge of Empires"] by Tim Chamberlain ''The British Museum Magazine'' Spring/Summer 2010. academia.edu. Louis Magrath King (born 1886) was a member of the British Consular Service in China.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080108235625/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/china/lists/cnxref.htm Register and Index of the Regiments and Corps of British Territories in China]. Regiments.org, now an archived website.
*British Army regiments in China are included in the following which is mainly about British Army Regiments in India. Note, may not be complete. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085422fw_/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz1.htm Indian portion of ''In Search of the 'Forlorn Hope': A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and their Records (1640-WWI)'' by John M Kitzmiller] - lists the location/year of all British regiments that served in India and related regions. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200507070713/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz.htm Regiments], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085628/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz2.htm Locations]) . From Bob Holland’s Rampais website, archived. Kitzmillers's two volume book is available at the online, see [[British Library UIN: BLL01010128905Army#Historical books online 2|British Army - Historical books online]].
*[http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/1661to1966/hongkong_china/hkc_list.shtml The Regiments in China and Hong Kong 1860 - 1935] The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment.
**[http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/1661to1966/hongkong_china/hkc05_1.shtml The Queen's join the China Station 1927] queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060527074322/http://www.redcoat.info/shanghai1927.htm Shanghai 1927: 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment] redcoat.info, now archived.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20131204181612/http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/uk/ops1919-39.html British Military Operations 1919-1939] by Graham Watson is a selection of orders of battle of various operations carried out by the British Army in the years between the wars. Scroll to the section "Shanghai 1927". orbat.com, now archived.
*[https://navyhistory.org.au/british-gunboats-on-the-yangtze/ "British Gunboats on the Yangtze"] 1984. Naval Historical Society of Australia. Includes information from ''Gunboats on the Great River'' by Gregory Haines 1976, which is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011324336 .*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210519015851/http://www.steelnavy.com/1250ChinaStation.htm "On China Station: Gunboat Diplomacy in China"] by Paul Jacobs steelnavy.com, now archived.
*[https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/37423 ''Changes and challenges: The Royal Navy's China Station and Britain's East Asian empire during the 1920s''] by Matthew Joseph Heaslip. University of Exeter thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Maritime History, November 2018. [https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/37423/HeaslipM.pdf Direct pdf]. Also available from [https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.775782 EThOS] British Library. Subsequently this thesis formed the basis of ''Gunboats, Empire and the China Station. The Royal Navy in 1920s East Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rVAEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages Google Books].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140228092554/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/plymouth-military-graves-desecrated-china/story-20024636-detail/story.html "Plymouth military graves desecrated in China"] November 02, 2013. plymouthherald.co.uk, now archived. British Naval base graveyard at Weihaiwei. Includes photographs of submarines c 1931. Same story [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486695/Chinese-authorities-dug-dozens-British-war-graves-used-headstones-BUILDING-says-son-submariner-died-1933.html dailymail.co.uk] 4 November 2013.
:Possibly there may be a current website, but it could not be located (at 2021/06/11).
:''Nagasaki: The British Experience, 1854-1945'' by Brian Burke-Gaffney 2009 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NfV5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2 Sample pages Google Books]
*[https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol12/iss1/swanson.html "Gentlemanly Capitalism and the Club Expatriate Social Networks in Meiji Kobe"] by Darren L. Swanson ejcjs (electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies) Volume 12, Issue 1 2012. japanesestudies.org.uk:[http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16921 ''Treaty Port Society and the Club in Meiji Japan: Clubbism, Athleticism and the Public Sphere''] by Darren Lee Swanson, [https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/16921/D.Swanson_thesis.pdf Direct pdf] 2016 PhD thesis, School of Languages and Cultures University of Sydney. *Foreigners' Great War Memorial, Yokohama, Japan (Details.<ref>Bryn et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/116329-foreigners-great-war-memorial-yokohama-japan/ Foreigners' Great War Memorial, Yokohama, Japan] ''Great War Forum'' 3 February 2009 et al. Retrieved 23 October 2022.</ref>)
===Historical books online===
:[https://archive.org/details/internationalrel00mors/page/n5/mode/2up Volume I] (probably 2nd edition), [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel01mors/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. I, 2nd file, but missing title page] (appears to have been author/publishing decision); [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel02mors Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel03mors/page/n5/mode/2up Volume III] All Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023255999 ''The Trade and Administration of China''] by Hosea Ballou Morse, sometime Commissioner of Customs 3rd Revised edition 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/outlinehistoryof01goweiala/page/n7/mode/2up ''An Outline History of China Part I From the Earliest Times to the Manchu Conquest A D 1644''] by Herbert H Gowen 1913 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/outlinehistoryof02goweiala/page/n5/mode/2up ''An Outline History of China Part II From the Manchu Conquest to the Recognition of the Republic A D 1913''] by Herbert H Gowen 1913 Archive.org
====Directories etc====
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044014172761?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai Almanac'' 1856] HathiTrust Digital Library
*''The Desk Hong List; A general and business directory for Shanghai and the Northern and River Ports etc''. [https://archive.org/details/1882deskhonglist 1882], [https://archive.org/details/1884deskhonglist 1884] Archive.org
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''
:This publication had many titles over time and with different publishers: ''The China Directory'' (1862, 1863, 1874). ''The Chronicle & Directory for China, Japan & the Philippines'' (1864, 1868, 1869, 1873, 1879). In 1889 included ''Corea, Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin, Siam, Borneo, Straits Settlements, Malay States''. In 1889 included ''Indo-China'' (replacing ''Cochin-China, Annam, Tonquin''). In 1899 included ''Netherlands India''. By 1905 the title had changed to ''The Directory & Chronicle…''. Published by Hongkong Daily Press.:Editions are mostly available to read online on the HathiTrust Digital Library, on Google Books, or on archiveArchive.org.
:In addition,
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|[https://www.chinafamilies.net/directories/ Directories] from ''China Families'' may have years additional to the table below.
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|'''[https://www.asia-directories.org/focal/ The Asia Directories Database] 1863-1941. Nearly a complete sequence. Missing 1866, 1867, 1872, 1875, 1884, 1915, but 1875 and 1915 are available Archive.org '''. For details see further below.
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|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EhZBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP11 1863] GB
[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924082105481?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 1863] HT
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dJMwe7xA6UMC&pg=PP9 1864] GB[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jphEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 PP7 1865] GB
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6IhEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP3 1868] GB
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VCoebLiOdZEC&pg=PP5 1869] GB
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GudKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1870] GB
[https://archive.org/details/chronicle-directory-china-1870/page/n5/mode/2up 1870] archive.org
[https://archive.org/details/Directorychronicle1874 1874 archive.org]
<br>[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/463542-the-china-directory-1874 1874 FamilySearch] Must be signed in to FS to view.
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qZFfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP5 1875] GB
[https://archive.org/details/chronicledirectorychina1875/page/n5/mode/2up 1875 archive.org]
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZZhEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 1876] GB
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tItEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 1877] GB
|-
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=lIxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1890] GB
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cYlEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1892] GB
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XhsrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 1892 File 2 GB]
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=KYpEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 1897] GB
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yUizWXDK6cYC&pg=PR1 1898] GB
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=obEZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover 1899] GB[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015034587611?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1899] HT
[https://archive.org/details/Directorychronicle1899 1899 archive.org]
|1900 U. Basel <nowiki>*</nowiki>1901 U. Basel <nowiki>*</nowiki>
|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b581038?urlappend=%3Bseq=41 1902] HT
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=uoQ5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA31 1902] GB
|-
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Jhd0UvhXIZwC&pg=PR23-IA4 1903] GB
[http://digitallibrary.ust.edu.ph/cdm/ref/collection/section5/id/126190 1903] University of Santo Tomas, Philippines
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WYxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR32-IA3 1904] GB
|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015034587629?urlappend=%3Bseq=57 1905] HT
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WI9EAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 1914] GB
|[https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00000882/00002 1915] soas.ac.uk
[https://archive.org/details/directorychroniclechina1915/page/n1/mode/2up 1915 archive.org]|1916 U|[https://books. Basel <nowiki>*<google.com.au/nowiki>books?id=bWY5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1917] GB |[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b581042?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1917] HT
[https://archive.org/details/Directorychronicle1917 1917 archive.org]
|[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b581044?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 1922] HT
[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fGk5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PP13 1922] GB
|1937 U. Basel <nowiki>*</nowiki>
|[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Xm85AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 1938] GB
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:<nowiki>*</nowiki> '''[https://adcwww.asia-directories.org/focal/ The Asia Directories Database] 1863-1941.baselNearly a complete sequence.hasdaiMissing 1866, 1867, 1872, 1875, 1884, 1915, but 1875 and 1915 are available Archive.org Europainstitut '''. From The Institute For European Global Studies, the University of Basel Asian Directories and Chronicles Digital Resource]. (More details<ref> [https://europa.unibas.ch/de/forschung/globalgeschichte-europas/global-information-at-a-glance/ Global Information at a Glance: Power, Law, and Commerce through the Lens of Asia Directories] Europainstitut, Universität Basel.</ref> ) :There is a Search Person function “Search the Database” (across the top of the webpage). The quality of the Search results will be dependent on how good the transcription (presumably by OCR) has been. :To browse individual volumes: Click on “Discover the search Asia Directories”. Then click on “All years are selected” and there will be a drop down menu from which you can select the year. icon for 1874, 1890, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1916, 1937 digitised editionsThen click on filter, near the currently available portion Right hand side of a database 1863the webpage. As an example [https://www.asia-1941directories.org/focal/discover/?tags%5B%5D=1919&filter=Filter 1919] :To read online, click on the title page shown. EuropainstitutFor ease of navigation you may find it convenient to click on the book icon, top right hand corner, Universität Baseland select Thumbnails bottom. Note :To download, go back a step to where you have selected the Institute advises year you require. Click on View souce. Currently (as at 20212023/09/0901) the website holding the ''Directories'' is it says Needs Login, but that does not appear to be a placeholder until replaced with requirement. Click through to a newer versionpage for [https://adc. The project ends in 2023 when the entire collection will be published as an openei-access resourcebasel.hasdai.:<nowiki>#<org/nowiki> The 1874 edition (but at 2021records/10/18 that edition alone) is 6cabe-xqc59 1919]. There may be several versions of the page available . Click on the [[Subscription websites-online newspaperslatest. You can download from this page. You can also read on line from this page, journals and directories|but the book reader is smaller than that reached by the first quoted method. There is however a full screen option. For 1919 the originating library subscription is Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, however this volume does not appear to be available online on that Library’s website]] from Gale. :[https: Gale Primary Sources/Nineteenth Century Collections Online/Mapping adc.ei-basel.hasdai.org/ Alternative access to the World: Maps and Travel Literaturedatabase] (A University of Basel page. )
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|National Library of Scotland Collection [https://digital.nls.uk/asian-directories-and-chronicles/archive/142307361 "Asian directories and chronicles"] 23 editions of the above title ''The Directory & Chronicle...'' 1917-1941, missing 1919 and 1923. Published by Hongkong Daily Press.
:Findmypast, pay website, database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/asia-far-east-directories-and-chronicles-1833-1941 Asia, Far East Directories & Chronicles 1833-1941], with a [https://www.findmypast.com/articles/asia-far-east-directories-and-chronicles-1833-1941-titles Publication list], introduced 2021/12/10. The database is searchable by name. An examination of a sample of three volumes indicated they were all digitised by others (2 by Google Books and one by National Library of Scotland) and were available elsewhere, and it is suspected that the whole database is similar, and does not include any "new" digitisations. The Findmypast viewer for this database is slow, and it would be quicker to view a volume elsewhere.
*''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila''
**[https://archivenlpdl.nlp.gov.orgph/details/rosenstocks-manila-city-directory-1909RM02/page1908/n29bs/mode/2up datejpg.htm ''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1909 January1908 July-June December Volume XIVXIII''] Archive.orgNational Library of the Philippines. Note catalogued as ''Rosenstock's Manila City Directory 19091908''. Consists of [https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-manila-city-directory-1909/Title page digital page/n31/mode/2up "28, Manila"] Section digital page 32, [https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-manila-city-directory-1909/page/n397/mode/2up "Hongkong"] Section digital page 398, etc**[https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-maniladirectory-citychina-directory-19091909v14/page/n616n31/mode/2up "''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1909 January to June, Volume XIV. Hongkong, Manila, Shanghai, Tientsin, Peking, Chefoo and Canton"''] digital page 617, [https://archiveArchive.org/details/rosenstocks-manila-city-directory-1909/page/n632/mode/2up "Shanghai"] digital page 633, includes***[https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-manila-citydirectory-directorychina-19091909v14/page/n958n399/mode/2up "TientsinHongkong Section"] digital page 959, 400; [https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-manila-citydirectory-directorychina-19091909v14/page/n1074n617/mode/2up "PekingCanton Section"] digital page 1075, 618; [https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-maniladirectory-citychina-directory-19091909v14/page/n1110n633/mode/2up "ChefooShanghai Section"] digital page 1111.*:Note some of the pages may appear fuzzy. This file appears to originate from a [https://books.google.com/books?id=hytBAQAAMAAJ Google Books file] available to those in North America etc634.**[https://nlpdl.nlp.gov.ph/RM02/1909/bs/datejpg.htm ''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1909 July-December Volume XV''] National Library of the PhillipinesPhilippines. Note, catalogued as ''Rosenstock's Manila City Directory 1909''. Includes Title page digital page 20. Manila section digital page 24. Hong Kong section digital page 364. Canton section digital page 580. File continues.
**[https://ustdigitallibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/section5/id/211637/rec/1 ''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1910. Volume XVI''] University of Santo Thomas, Manila, Philippines.
**[https://ustdigitallibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/section5/id/209623/rec/2 ''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1911. Volume XVII''] University of Santo Thomas, Manila, Philippines.
*:For the last two entries, the books are searchable. Click on the icon for the book reader.
**[https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-directory-china-1917v23/page/n13/mode/2up ''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1917 Volume XXIII''] Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-directory-china-1920v26/page/n17/mode/2up ''Rosenstock’s Directory of China and Manila 1920 Volume XXVI''] Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/rosenstocks-directory-china-1933 ''Rosenstock's Business Directory of China 1933''] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/the-comacrib-directory-of-china-1925/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Comacrib Directory of China 1925 Combined Chinese-Foreign Commercial and Classified Directory of China and Hongkong. Volume 1''] Archive.org
*''The Colonial Office List for ...''. Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. First published 1862. See [[Directories online#Colonial Office List|Directories online - Colonial Office List]] for a broken range 1862-1966. Includes Hong Kong and Wei-hai-wei.
*[https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001364/00067/allvolumes ''Service List China Imperial Maritime Customs Service''] A collection of editions 1876 to 1947, 67 volumes. SOAS University of London digital.soas.ac.uk .
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.84681/page/iv/mode/2up ''On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago: A Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and on the Seabord of Korea and Manchuria''] by William Blakeney RN, William; Illustrated by F le Breton Bedwell RN. 1902 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai Collection. The voyage commenced in 1856.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023257532 ''A Cruise in an Opium Clipper''] by Captain Lindsay Anderson 1891 Archive.org. He joined the opium clipper 1859 at Shanghai.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024151957/page/n9/mode/2up ''The China Clippers''] by Basil Lubbock 2nd edition 1914, first published also 1914. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/chinesecommerci00willgoog/page/n11 ''The Chinese commercial guide : containing treaties, tariffs, regulations, tables, etc useful in the trade to China & Eastern Asia : with an appendix of sailing directions for those seas and coasts''] by S. Wells Williams 5th edition 1863 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4QkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''Reports from Committees: Mortality of Troops (China)''] Session 1 February-10 August 1866 Volume XV. Ordered to be printed by The House of Commons 24 July 1866. Google Books.
:''China: The Maritime Customs. IV- Service Series, No 69. Documents illustrative of the Origin, Development, and Activities of the Chinese Customs Service''. Published at Shanghai by the Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs.
: Volumes I-V ''Inspector General's Circulars'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206919/page/n5/mode/2up ''Vol. I: 1861-1892''] 1937; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206920 ''Vol. II 1893 to 1910''] 1938;[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206918 ''Vol. III 1911 to 1923''] 1938; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206921 ''Vol. IV 1924 to 1931''] 1939; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206922 ''Vol. V 1932 to 1938''] 1939; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206923 ''Vol. VI Despatches, Letters, Memoranda etc 1842 to 1901''] 1938; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206274 ''Vol. VII Despatches, Letters, Memoranda etc Index''] 1940 including [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206274/page/n425/mode/2up "Index"], page 413. Note catalogued title varies. All Archive.org, mirror versions from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n11 ''Houseboat Days in China''] by J. O. P. Bland illustrated by W D Straight 1909. With a [https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n311/mode/1up Map of Country near Shanghai] digital page 312. Archive.org. :[https://archive.org/details/recenteventspres00blan/page/n9/mode/2up ''Recent Events and Present Policies in China''] by J. O. P. Bland 1912 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/chinajapankorea00blan/page/n7/mode/2up ''China, Japan and Korea''] by J. O. P. Bland 1921 Archive.org :[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Otway_Percy_Bland John Otway Percy Bland] (Wikipedia) was a British writer and journalist, who lived in China for most of the period 1883–1910.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023611381 ''Sport and Travel in the Far East''] by J C Grew 1910 Archive.org. The travel occurred in 1902-1903. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grew Joseph Grew] Wikipedia. He became an American diplomat, and from 1932-1941 was Ambassador to Japan.
*[https://archive.org/details/liondragoninnort00john/page/n9 ''Lion and Dragon in Northern China''] by Reginald Fleming Johnston 1910 Archive.org. The photographs may be better in the [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48782/48782-h/48782-h.htm Gutenberg.org version]. This book is about Wei-hai-wei.
:*[https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/242/mode/2up "Petty Officer Stan Smith", page 242] China c late 1920s - early 1930s.
:*[https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/248/mode/2up "Engine Room Artificer Trevor Lewis", page 249] Hong Kong and China, including Shanghai during bombing, mid-late 1930s.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16218?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''We Dive at Dawn''] by Lt.-Com. Kenneth Edwards 1941. HathiTrust Digital Library. About Submarines. Missing Contents page, but includes a description of the Illustrations, which gives some idea of the Contents. Includes [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16218?urlappend=%3Bseq=391%3Bownerid=9007199259142439-401 "Chapter XX" pages 347-360] (digital page 391) about China Station in the 1920s.
:[https://archive.org/details/farchinastationu0000john/mode/2up ''Far China Station : the U.S. Navy in Asian Waters, 1800-1898''] by Robert Irwin Johnson 2013, first published 1979. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:Sample pages [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zTc4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1833 ''Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China''] by Kemp Tolley 2013. Google Books
:Sample pages [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YxLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''The Royal Navy, China Station 1864 - 1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief''] by Jonathan Parkinson. 2018. Title on title page is ''The China Station, Royal Navy: A History as seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief, 1864-1941''.
*''A naturalist in Western China : with vasculum, camera, and gun, being some account of eleven year's travel, exploration, and observation in the more remote parts of the flowery kingdom'' by Ernest Henry Wilson 1913. [https://archive.org/details/naturalistinwest01wils/page/n9 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/naturalistinwest02wils/page/n7 Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.155680 ''Ernest H. Wilson Plant Hunter''] [1876-1930] by Edward I Farrington 1931. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version], mirror from the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. The author was an American writer and broadcaster. [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FJulius_Lauterbach&edit-text=&act=url Julius Lauterbach] Wikipedia Google Translate English] [1877-1937], [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Lauterbach Original German version]. From c 1900 to the start of WW1, Lauterbach sailed the China Sea, becoming Captain, with the initial chapters covering this period.
*[https://www.wdlarchive.org/endetails/peace-handbooks-v12-china/page/n7/itemmode/11880 2up ''Peace Handbooks Volume 12 China, Japan, Siam. 67-71, 73-74 China: Recent History; Mongolia; Manchuria; Tibet; Kiaochow and Weihaiwei; Japan: Recent History; Siam: Recent History. (Issued by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office)''] published by HM Stationery Office 1920Archive.org includes**No. Series67 [https: ''Peace Handbooks'' prepared //archive.org/details/peace-handbooks-v12-china/page/n11/mode/2up "China"] by Foreign OfficeCharles William Campbell, late Chinese Secretary, British Legation, UK Govt. World Digital Library a project of the U.S. Library of CongressPeking, contributed by Library digital page 12**Part of CongressNo. Also available 71 [https://archive.org/streamdetails/MongoliaManchuriaKiaochowWeihaiweiPeaceHandbooks68721920/Mongoliapeace-Manchuriahandbooks-Kiaochowv12-Weihaiwei_PeaceHandbooks_68-72_1920#china/page/n57n409/mode/1up Archive.org2up "Weihaiwei"] as part of a larger , digital file including Mongolia and Manchuriapage 410.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelershandboo00crow ''The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong)''] by Carl Crow Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/314/mode/2up Index]. Includes maps.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn37wq?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1913 Edition] Hathi Trust Digital Library
*''Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo. A narrative of the settlement and the city from the signing of the treaties in 1858, to the close of the year 1879. With a glance at the progress of Japan during a period of twenty-one years'' by John R Black formerly editor of the ''Japan Herald''. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071147825 Volume I] 1880, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071147833 Volume II] 1881
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.91353/page/ii/mode/2up ''The Land of the Morning: An Account of Japan and its People based on a Four Years Residence in the Country; including Travels into the Remotest Parts of the Interior''] by William Gray Dixon 1882 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28The+Japan+Weekly+Mail%29+AND+creator%3A%28The+Japan28Japan+Weekly+Mail%29&sort=date &page=1 ''The Japan Weekly Mail''] 1870-1917, scattered editions broken range. Some book files are individual issues only. Most editions , but others are for 1874 and 1884a six months or whole year period. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22+Japan+Daily+Mail%22%29&sort=titleSorter ''The Japan Daily Mail''] , a broken range from 1888 to 1917. Archive.org
* ''The Japan Gazette''. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eWQvAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 Issues from 22 September 1873 to 14 October 1874] Google Books, [https://archive.org/details/japan-gazette-1873sept/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tv2pCJhcZPEC&pg=PA1 1877 Jan.-Dec.] GB, [https://archive.org/details/japan-gazette-1877/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]; [https://archive.org/details/japan-gazette-1880v25/page/1/mode/2up 1880 Jan.- June, Volume 25] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_WSopAAAAYAAJ/page/n3/mode/2up 1880, July-Dec. Volume 26] Archive.org; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=iSopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 1881 July-Dec. Volume 28] G B, [https://archive.org/details/japan-gazette-1881v28/page/1/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*''Things Japanese : being notes on various subjects connected with Japan for the use of travellers and others'' by Basil Hall Chamberlain. [https://archive.org/details/thingsjapanesebe00cham_0/page/n5 2nd edition revised and enlarged 1891], [https://archive.org/details/ThingsJapaneseBeingNotesOnVariousSubjectsConnecedWithJapan 3rd edition revised 1898], [https://archive.org/details/thingsjapanesebe00cham/page/n3 4th edition, revised and enlarged 1902], [https://archive.org/details/thingsjapanesebe00chamuoft/page/n3 5th edition 1905 revised] All Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/queerthingsabout00sladrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Queer Things about Japan''] by Douglas Sladen 1904, 2nd edition, first published 1903. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/morequeerthingsa00slad/page/n7/mode/2up ''More Queer Things about Japan''] by Douglas Sladen and Norma Lorimer. 1904 Archive.org.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2236 ''An outline history of Japan''] by Herbert H. Gowen 19271928. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. [https://booksarchive.googleorg/details/outline-history-japan/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.comorg mirror version].au/books?id=aXHUAAAAMAAJ Snippet view Google Books]
*[https://archive.org/details/tenyearsinjapan0000unse_e9r4/page/n7/mode/2up ''Ten years in Japan : a contemporary record drawn from the diaries and private and official papers of Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, 1932-1942''] 1944 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesofforeignse0000will/page/n5/mode/2up ''Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan''] by Harold S. Williams 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MAXQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Reprint edition (1986). Shows book cover, possibly from original 1958 book? Google Books:[https://archive.org/details/shadesofpastorin0000will/mode/2up ''Shades of the Past: Indiscreet Tales of the Foreign Settlements in Japan'' ] by Harold SWilliams 1972, first published 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.:[https://archive. org/details/foreignersinmika0000will/mode/2up ''Foreigners in Mikadoland''] Harold S Williams. Reprint edition (1986?) 1972, first published 19581963. Archive. Google org Booksto Borrow/Lending Library.:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_S._Williams Harold S. Williams] Wikipedia.
=====Fiction=====
*[https://archive.org/details/shogunvol100clav/mode/2up ''Shogan: A novel of Japan, Volume 1''] by James Clavell 1975. [https://archive.org/details/shogunnovelofjap00clav/page/n5/mode/2up ''Shogun : a novel of Japan, Volume 2''] by James Clavell 1975. The setting is Japan in 1600 and the exploits of the Englishman John Blackthorne. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
