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**[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.
**[https://archive.org/details/Harry_Collingwood_A_Chinese_Command ''A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in the Eastern Seas''] by Harry Collingwood, (pseudonym i.e. William Joseph Cosens Lancaster). Illustrated by Arch. Webb. 1915 Archive.org. The main character Frobisher is a cashiered Royal Navy ex-officer who ends up commanding a Chinese battleship during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. An adventure story. [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Joseph_Cosens_Lancaster Author:William Joseph Cosens Lancaster] Wikisource.
**[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1700 ''Within the Four Seas : a Shantung Idyll''] by Paul Richard Abbott published Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1930. A series of chapter downloads from STOU Digital Repository, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. A description elsewhere says "A fictional tale of a young Chinese scholar who has run away from the tyranny of his family to work with the Chinese Labor Corps in France during the Great War". The author is stated to be an American missionary and the book is discussed from page 84 in [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/45625/Yi-Ling_Lin.pdf?sequence=1 ''Cultural Engagement In Missionary China: American Missionary Novels 1880-1930''] by Yi-Ling Lin PhD Thesis in Comparative Literature, Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16210/page/n7/mode/2up ''Juan In China''] by Eric Linklater. 1961 edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. Elsewhere<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Victor-Smolnikoff/dp/B08R7V6XBF?language=en_US ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician''] by Victor Smolnikoff page 10 of the sample pages available in "Look inside". amazon.com</ref> it is stated "The Japanese artillery during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937, well described by Eric Linklater in his novel “ Juan in China” (practically every word is true)…"
