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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924079597948 ''The Land of the Dragon. My boating and shooting excursions to the gorges of the Upper Yangtze''] by William Spencer Percival, H B M’s [His Britannic Majesty's] Civil Service China 1889 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023517745 ''Twenty Years in the Far East : Sketches of Sport, Travel and Adventure''] by William Spencer Percival 1905 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withboatguninyan00wadeuoft/page/n5 ''With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley''] by Henling Thomas Wade. With special chapters by valued contributors. Second edition 1910 Archive.org. First published [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN61033168X&PHYSID=PHYS_0005&DMDID= 1895 staatsbibliothek-berlin.de version].
*[https://archive.org/details/lifesportinchina00readrich/page/n5 ''Life and Sport in China''] by Oliver George Ready 1904 2nd edition, possibly first published 1903. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023247061 2nd file, with white pages] Archive.org.
*[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://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.
*''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.
*[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.
*Fiction based on personal experience: [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author served on HMS "Scarab" (river gunboat) in 1919-1920, and it is stated elsewhere, in respect of another book, that he wrote about things actually seen and experienced.
: Note, this title may be the American title as it appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
*[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/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
*[https://archive.org/details/midnightinpeking00fren_0 ''Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China''] by Paul French 2012. Archive.org Lending Library. A true story of a 1937 murder of a British schoolgirl.
:[https://archive.org/details/MidnightInPeking ''Midnight In Peking''] by Paul French. BBC Radio Reading audio May-June 2012. Archive.org
:[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.
*''Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''. ''North'' appears to have been dropped from the title for a period.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=p4ZhofZJl24C&pg=PA125 New Series No I December 1864], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bm-TQj1RnEwC&pg=PP5 New Series No II December 1865], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vpMY4e-BZisC&pg=PP7 New Series No III December 1866] Google Books
**Multiple volumes [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Journal%29%20AND%20title%3A%28China%29%20AND%20title%3A%28Asiatic%29 Archive.org]
**Multiple volumes Hathi Trust: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100223794 A], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886163 B], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000519144 C]
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000065359 ''Notes and Queries on China and Japan''], four volumes 1867 to 1870. Published in Hong Kong. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28+Notes+and+Queries+on+China+and+Japan%29&sort=-date Archive.org editions] 1867 and 1869.
*[http://lib.hku.hk/database/ Digital Initiatives] from the [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Some databases are restricted to members of the University. For those databases which are freely available, click on Browse to see the titles available.
*Digital Collection of the University of Macau Library, [http://libdigital.umac.mo/was5/digital/500selected.jsp?iPage=1 Books on China Online, 16th – Early 20th Century].
*[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/publicationssonline.html Chinese Maritime Customs publications available online]. Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol
*[http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/China-Bibliographie/blog/ Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0] Online books. "This project is an addition (and a new horizon) for "Western Books on China in Libraries in Vienna/Austria, 1477-1939"". univie.ac.at
*Fiction: [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41366 ''The Flying Boat: A Story of Adventure and Misadventure''] by Herbert Strang 1912. Gutenberg.org. Young British traders in China. An adventure story for younger readers.
→Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023225471 ''Bits of Old China''] by William C Hunter 1885 Archive,org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t17m0602w?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''English Life In China''] by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], originally on the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924079597948 ''The Land of the Dragon. My boating and shooting excursions to the gorges of the Upper Yangtze''] by William Spencer Percival, H B M’s [His Britannic Majesty's] Civil Service China 1889 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023517745 ''Twenty Years in the Far East : Sketches of Sport, Travel and Adventure''] by William Spencer Percival 1905 Archive.org
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
*[https://archive.org/details/withboatguninyan00wadeuoft/page/n5 ''With Boat and Gun in the Yangtze Valley''] by Henling Thomas Wade. With special chapters by valued contributors. Second edition 1910 Archive.org. First published [https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN61033168X&PHYSID=PHYS_0005&DMDID= 1895 staatsbibliothek-berlin.de version].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023226065 ''China, Past and Present''] by Edward Harper Parker 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/lifesportinchina00readrich/page/n5 ''Life and Sport in China''] by Oliver George Ready 1904 2nd edition, possibly first published 1903. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023247061 2nd file, with white pages] Archive.org.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044098621162?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''China; Report on a Journey from Peking to Shanghai Overland'']. Presented to both Houses of Parliament June 1898 HMSO 1898. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/chinamartyrsof1900fors ''The China Martyrs of 1900.
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors'']
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 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/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://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/stream/fiftyyearsinroya00scotuoft#page/164/mode/2up Wei-Hai-Wei] c 1900 page 165 ''Fifty Years in the Royal Navy'' by Admiral Sir Percy Scott 1919. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishdocuments04greabyu/page/112 "Negotiations relating to Wei-Hai-Wei and Corea 1904-5"] page 112 ''British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914, Volume IV: The Anglo-Russian Rapprochment, 1903-7'' edited by G P Gooch and Harold Temperley 1929. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/searoadtoeastgib00sargrich/page/98 "The Chinese Stations"] page 99, and [https://archive.org/details/searoadtoeastgib00sargrich/page/n139?mode/1up Photograph: Naval Hospital Liukungtao], facing page 113 ''The Sea Road to the East, Gibraltar to Wei-hai-wei; six lectures'' by Arthur John Sargent 1912 Archive.org
*''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.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023286838/page/n4 ''China Inland Mission private telegraph code''] 1913 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/pekingoverlandro00thom/page/n5 ''Peking and the overland route''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 3rd edition 1917 Archive.org
:[https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-giving-the-history-of-the-chinese-labour-corps-used-behind-the-lines-in-france-1917-19 ''Report giving the history of the Chinese Labour Corps used behind the lines in France 1917-19''] British Library Mss Eur F288/110. Part of the family papers of Sir Leslie Fry, Mss Eur F288, (so possibly written by a family member?) British Library Digital.
*''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.
*Fiction based on personal experience: [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 [[Shanghai]], Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author served on HMS "Scarab" (river gunboat) in 1919-1920, and it is stated elsewhere, in respect of another book, that he wrote about things actually seen and experienced.
: Note, this title may be the American title as it appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>
*[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://www.wdl.org/en/item/11880 ''Kiaochow and Weihaiwei''] 1920. Series: ''Peace Handbooks'' prepared by Foreign Office, UK Govt. World Digital Library a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, contributed by Library of Congress. Also available [https://archive.org/stream/MongoliaManchuriaKiaochowWeihaiweiPeaceHandbooks68721920/Mongolia-Manchuria-Kiaochow-Weihaiwei_PeaceHandbooks_68-72_1920#page/n57/mode/1up Archive.org] as part of a larger digital file including Mongolia and Manchuria.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89613/page/n7 ''The Chinese Are Like That''] by Carl Crow 1938 Archive.org. American edition of the previous book with an extra chapter. Illustrations differ.
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Crow Carl Crow] Wikipedia
*[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/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
*[https://archive.org/details/midnightinpeking00fren_0 ''Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China''] by Paul French 2012. Archive.org Lending Library. A true story of a 1937 murder of a British schoolgirl.
:[https://archive.org/details/MidnightInPeking ''Midnight In Peking''] by Paul French. BBC Radio Reading audio May-June 2012. Archive.org
:[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.
*''Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''. ''North'' appears to have been dropped from the title for a period.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=p4ZhofZJl24C&pg=PA125 New Series No I December 1864], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bm-TQj1RnEwC&pg=PP5 New Series No II December 1865], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vpMY4e-BZisC&pg=PP7 New Series No III December 1866] Google Books
**Multiple volumes [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Journal%29%20AND%20title%3A%28China%29%20AND%20title%3A%28Asiatic%29 Archive.org]
**Multiple volumes Hathi Trust: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100223794 A], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886163 B], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000519144 C]
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000065359 ''Notes and Queries on China and Japan''], four volumes 1867 to 1870. Published in Hong Kong. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28+Notes+and+Queries+on+China+and+Japan%29&sort=-date Archive.org editions] 1867 and 1869.
*[http://lib.hku.hk/database/ Digital Initiatives] from the [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Some databases are restricted to members of the University. For those databases which are freely available, click on Browse to see the titles available.
*Digital Collection of the University of Macau Library, [http://libdigital.umac.mo/was5/digital/500selected.jsp?iPage=1 Books on China Online, 16th – Early 20th Century].
*[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/publicationssonline.html Chinese Maritime Customs publications available online]. Chinese Maritime Customs project, University of Bristol
*[http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/China-Bibliographie/blog/ Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0] Online books. "This project is an addition (and a new horizon) for "Western Books on China in Libraries in Vienna/Austria, 1477-1939"". univie.ac.at
*Fiction: [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41366 ''The Flying Boat: A Story of Adventure and Misadventure''] by Herbert Strang 1912. Gutenberg.org. Young British traders in China. An adventure story for younger readers.
====Journeys, and Central Asia====
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta. 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.
*''The River of Golden Sand: being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah'' by Captain William Gill R. E. [https://archive.org/details/riverofgoldensan01gill Volume I 1880], [https://archive.org/details/rivergoldensand02yulegoog Volume II 1880] [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023220217 Condensed [memorial<nowiki>]</nowiki> edition 1883] Archive.org
*''Across Chrysê, being the narrative of a journey of exploration through the South China border lands from Canton to Mandalay'' by Archibald R Colquhoun, Executive Engineer, Indian Public Works. [https://archive.org/details/acrosschrysbeing01colq Volume I] 3rd edition 1883 (probably first published also 1883), [https://archive.org/details/acrosschrysbein02colqgoog Volume II] 1883 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003506A Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035070 Volume II ] 1883 British Library Digital Collection with rotatable images. Chryse (Chrysê) is the Greek short name of gold-producing Chryse Chersonesos (The Golden Peninsula) in the East Indies (Wikipedia)
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005E37A ''Report on the Railway Connexion of Burmah and China ... with account of exploration-survey by H. S. Hallett. Accompanied by surveys, vocabularies and appendices''] by Archibald R Colquhoun 1888
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924100340896 ''An Australian in China, being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to British Burma''] by George Ernest Morrison 2nd edition 1895 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003548A British Library Digital Collection] 1895 [1st edition?] with rotatable images.
*[https://archive.org/details/yankeeonyangtzeb00geil ''A Yankee on the Yangtze; being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma''] by William Edgar Geil ... With one hundred full-page illustrations 1904 London edition with a [https://archive.org/stream/yankeeonyangtzeb00geil#page/n25/mode/1up map] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/frompekingtoman01johngoog/page/n14 ''From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma Through Tibetan Ssuchʻuan and Yunnan''] by R F Johnston 1908 Archive.org. Incomplete map. [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49561/49561-h/images/i_map.jpg Map] from the [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49561 Gutenberg.org edition].
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1973-macartney-at-kashgar-by-skrine-s-pdf/ ''Macartney at Kashgar: New Light on British, Chinese and Russian Activities in Sinkiang, 1890-1918''] by C.P. Skrine and Pamela Nightingale. 1973. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:Macartney’s wife Catherine wrote of her time at Kashgar in [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1951-an-english-lady-in-chinese-turkestan-by-lady-macartney-s-pdf/ ''An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan''] first published 1931. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-where-china-meets-burma-life-and-travel-in-the-burma-china-border-lands-by-metford-s-pdf/ ''Where China Meets Burma. : Life and Travel in the Burma-China Border Lands''] by Beatrix Metford 1935. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. (If download does not display, located in Books/Tibet And China). A description of the book elsewhere indicates the author accompanied her husband, who was a British official. They lived for several years in the Shan States, Burma and then in Yunnan, southern China. From elsewhere, it appears she was the second wife of Stanley Wyatt-Smith of Britain's China Consular Service.
====Japan====
*[https://archive.org/details/japangazettehon00unkngoog ''The "Japan Gazette" Hong List and Directory, for 1874''] Archive.org. '''Note''': some of the text is missing- it is not clear whether this relates to the filming, or the original publication.
