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*[https://archive.org/details/pekingwhoswho1922 ''The Peking Who's Who 1922''] Compiled by Alex. Ramsay. 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/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.
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