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* Also see the main cities in China, particularly [[Shanghai]].
*''The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto ... during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchin-China, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies''. Done into English by H C [Henry Cogan] [https://archive.org/details/b30320586/page/n9/mode/2up 1663 edition], [https://archive.org/details/voyagesadventure00pint/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd edition, corrected and amended 1663] First Portuguese edition 1614.
:''The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese (done into English by Henry Cogan) with an Introduction by Arminius Vambery''. A volume in ''The Adventure Series''. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183410/page/n11/mode/2up Abridged and Illustrated edition 1891], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924011271826/page/n7/mode/2up Popular edition 1897] All Archive.org.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1847 ''The Dragon and the Foreign Devils''] by Johan Gunnar Andersson ; translated from the Swedish by Charles Wharton Stork 1928. Translation of the author's "Draken och de främmande djävlarna". Link to a number of pdf downloads STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand.
*[https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory0000unse_j3k5/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Political History of China, 1840-1928''] by Li Chien-Nung. Translated and Edited by Ssu-Yu Teng and Jeremy Ingalls. 1963 reprint edition, originally published 1956. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2204 ''New Lamps for Old: An Interpretation of Events in Modern China and Whither They Lead''] by Anatol M Kotenev. published Shanghai : North-China Daily News & Herald, 1931. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. [https://books.google.com.et/books?id=IZACAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]. Elsewhere, about the author: "As Russia fell to the communists, he escaped with his family to China and served with the British Colonial Service in Shanghai. He was a noted lecturer and author of several books on the history and politics of China".:For more books by Kotenev, see [[Shanghai#Historical books online|Shanghai - Historical books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni00snow/page/n5 ''Journey to the Beginning''] by Edgar Snow 1958. [https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni0000snow File 2: 1972 reprint]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Snow Edgar Snow] Wikipedia. Snow was an American journalist who lived in China for many years from 1928, best known for his book, ''Red Star Over China'' (1937), an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.
:[https://archive.org/details/redstaroverchina00snow/mode/2up ''Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army''] by Edgar Snow c 1938.
**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, which also contains [https://archive.org/details/notesandqueries00unkngoog/page/n198/mode/2up 1868] (from digital page 198), and 1869. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VXtFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 Volume 4, Issues 1-8] [1870] Google Books.
*''The China Review, or notes & queries on the Far East''. Published in Hong Kong. Multiple volumes from Volume 1, 1872 to Volume 21 1894-5 catalogued full view, but Vols. 22 and 23 also noted, cataloged incorrectly. HathiTrust Digital Library [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100154402 A], [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100159834 B] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100394917 C]. From an individual book file, it is generally possible to click on "Find at Google Books" for the Google Books file. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=China+review++or+Notes+%26+queries+on+the+Far+East.&sort=-date Archive.org volumes].
*[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
*[http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique/ Asian Digital Library] IrAsia - Institut de recherches asiatiques, Aix-Marseille Université, France.
*[http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/title/zdb/24329435/ ''Deutsch-chinesische Nachrichten''] 1930-1939 and [http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/list/title/zdb/24323688/ ''Deutsche Zeitung in Nordchina''] 1939-1941. Online German language newspapers, published Tientsin (now Tianjin). staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
*[http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/kolonial/nav/index/all?max=100&facets=keyword%3D%22Kiautschou%22&s=date German language books about Kiautschou and Tsingtau] Koloniale Sammlungen, Universitätsbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main. (Jiaozhou was romanized as Kiaochow, Kiauchau or Kiao-Chau in English and as Kiautschou or Kiaochau in German. The administrative centre was at Tsingtau (now Qingdao).<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiautschou_Bay_concession Kiautschou Bay concession] Wikipedia.</ref>)
