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:[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/chinamodernmedic00balm ''China and modern medicine: a study in medical missionary development''] by Harold Balme 1921 Archive.org
*[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/jestingpilateint00huxl/page/4/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : an Intellectual Holiday''] by Aldous Huxley 1926. Archive.org. Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/n7/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : the Diary of a Journey''] 1957 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library, and as ''Jesting Pilate: Travels Through India, Burma, Malaya, Japan, China, and America'' (1991).
*[https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo0000unse_k4j5/page/n3/mode/2up ''A military history of modern China, 1924-1949''] by F F Liu (Frederick Fu) 1956. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/mypleasurespalac00huss/mode/2up ''My Pleasures and Palaces; an Informal Memoir of Forty Years in Modern China''] by Harry Hussey 1968. [https://archive.org/details/mypleasurespalac0000huss/page/n6/mode/2up File 2]. An architect born 1881, he was in China from 1911. He left his home in Peking early 1949, ahead of the takeover by Communist troops. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinesecitybetwe00chin/mode/2up ''The Chinese city between two worlds''] edited by Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner 1974. Includes chapters on [[Shanghai]], [[Canton]]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/foreignestablish0000feue/page/n3/mode/2up ''The foreign establishment in China in the early twentieth century''] by Albert Feuerwerker 1976. Series ''Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies, No 29''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinaboundfiftyy00fair_0 ''Chinabound : a fifty-year memoir''] by John King Fairbank 1982. [https://archive.org/details/chinaboundfiftyy00fair/page/n5/mode/2up File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Fairbank arrived in Peking in 1932 to study Chinese and do research for an Oxford University D Phil thesis (subsequently completed in 1936). He was also in China during WW2. Also see his book above ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast. The Opening of the Treaty Ports 1842-1854''.
*[https://archive.org/details/easternbankinges0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up ''Eastern banking : essays in the history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation''] edited by Frank H H King 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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
*Series ''Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939'', published by HMSO. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190131182335/https://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom Details] of the volumes (diplomatic-documents.org, archived page), published between 1946 and 1986.
**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] consisting of 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].
*''Things Chinese being Notes on various subjects connected with China'' by J Dyer Ball H M Civil Service, Hong Kong.
:[https://archive.org/details/thingschinesebei00balliala/page/n5/mode/2up 1892 edition]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschineseor00ballgoog/page/n8/mode/2up 2nd edtion, revised and enlarged 1893]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschinesebei00ball 3rd edition revised and enlarged 1900]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschineseor01ballgoog 4th edition 1904] with title ''Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China''. All Archive.org.
*[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].
*[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. [https://archive.org/details/nightingale-pam-pam-nightingale-pamela-nightingale-macartney-at-kashgar-new-ligh/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org version, 2005 reprint].
: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/dli.pahar.2943/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
:A later biography is ''The Diplomat of Kashgar: A Very Special Agent. The Life of Sir George Macartney, 18 January 1867-19 May 1945'' by James McCarthy.
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