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*[http://avezink.livejournal.com/24214.html Doctor Smolnikoff's memoir: My Sikhs] : Translated extracts from Victor Smolnikoff 's memoir of the 1940s in Shanghai (written in the 1970s in Russia). He worked as a doctor until 1954 in Shanghai, when he and his family were repatriated to the Soviet Union. avezink.livejournal.com. Most Sikhs were in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Police.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160602212006/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123631167597549481 "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'"] by Hugo Restall March 6, 2009 ''The Wall Street Journal'', now an archived page. Expat writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hugo Restall was then editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Personal memoirs mentioned which are available at the British Library include ''Hunting Opium and Other Scents'' by Maurice Springfield (British assistant police commissioner) UIN: BLL01003468563 ; ''Shanghai Saga'' by John Pal (an officer of Chinese Customs) UIN: BLL01002750919 ; ''Stone - paper - scissors : Shanghai, 1921-1945 : an autobiography'' by the Stead sisters (daughters of a British real-estate man) UIN: BLL01008149019 . ''I Didn't Make a Million'' by Whitey Smith first published 1956 in Manila, republished with the additional title wording ''How Jazz Came to China''. Details of the book, including extracts.<ref>[http://shanghaisojourns.net/blog/2017/5/19/the-story-and-the-songs-of-jazz-bandleader-whitey-smith-the-man-who-taught-china-to-dance-in-shanghai-1920s-1930s "Jazz Bandleader Whitey Smith, “The Man Who Taught China to Dance” in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s"] shanghaisojourns.net</ref>
: See [[Hong Kong]] for more details of ''The Breach in the Wall: A Memoir of Old China'' by Enid Saunders Candlin (born in Shanghai, daughter of a tea merchant) 1973 UIN: BLL01000594031
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/26/top-10-books-about-old-shanghai "Top 10 books about Old Shanghai"] by Paul French 26 September 2018 ''The Guardian''. Old in this article refers to the 1930s onwards.
*Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dba67SLBQzM Old Shanghai 1930s] YouTube video.
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