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==Military==
*For a British Army overview, see [[China]].
*For the Shanghai Contingent who volunteered for the British Army in 1914, see [[China (First World War)]].
===Shanghai Volunteer Corps ===
A reserve force in time of emergency in the International Settlement. By the 1930s, the Volunteers were a truly international force, with American, English, Scottish, Chinese, Italian, Jewish, Portuguese, Filipino and White Russian units. C 1937 it consisted of one professional battalion of young White Russians, superbly disciplined and impeccably turned out in British Army uniforms. The other companies were manned by volunteers from the civilian population. There was 'A' Company formed by Britons of pure-white descent. 'B' Company contained Eurasians. 'C' Company was the Chinese unit.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183953/www.talesofoldchina.com/shanghai/law/t-volu.htm "Shanghai Volunteer Corps"] talesofoldchina.com, now archived, quoting an excerpt from ''Sin City'', by Ralph Shaw, 1976, originally published in the UK as ''Sweet and Sour'' 1973, published in USA as ''China Nights'' 1974. 1976 edition is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01012684846 . Ralph Shaw was sent to Shanghai as part of the UK military force, then became journalist then night editor, of the ''North China Daily News'', see [http://shanghailander.net/2008/03/sin-city/ ''Sin City''] shanghailander.net. </ref>
*''Eighty Five Years of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps'' by I I Kounin, published Shanghai c 1938. Available at the Imperial War Museums, catalogue number LBY 96 / 1685
*Article: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44223088?seq=1 "Notes On The Shanghai Volunteer Corps"] by A. McKenzie Annand ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 53, No. 214 (Summer 1975), pp. 98-102. jstor.org. Register with jstor.org and read online for free.
*Article [http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t041223.html The Jewish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Compared With Other Jewish Diaspora Fighting Units] by Benis M. Frank Chief Historian of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1992 vlib.us. Scroll towards the end of the article for details of the Jewish Company, SVC
===Shanghai Defence Force===
*[http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA21029553&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=75b940f0 "Shanghailanders: the formation and identity of the British settler community in Shanghai, 1843-1937"] by Robert Bickers ''Past & Present. 159.1 (May 1998)'': p161+. galegroup.com
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20120425051943/http://yangziman.blog.com/2011/10/04/shanghais-lost-foreigner-cemeteries/ Shanghai’s Lost Foreigner Cemeteries] by Eric N. Danielson 10 April 2011 from his website [http://web.archive.org/web/20120616084651/http://yangziman.blog.com YangziMan: Adventures in China], now an archived website.
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20191029182002/https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/831024.shtml "Digging up the past"] by Zhang Yu 2013. globaltimes.cn, archived. Cemeteries for foreigners in Shanghai.
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2405371 Bubbling Well Road Cemetery] Find A Grave. List of names.
*[http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Asset/Preview/dbImage_ID-1834_No-1.jpeg Photograph: Bubbling Well Cemetery, Shanghai] from [http://www.virtualshanghai.net/Photos/Images?ID=1834 www.virtualshanghai.net]
:There is an English language version of his memoir ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician'' by Victor Smolnikoff ISBN-13 : 979-8577807931 <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Victor-Smolnikoff/dp/B08R7V6XBF?language=en_US ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician''] with some sample pages available. amazon.com</ref>
*William E Fairbairn was with the Shanghai Municipal Police for over 30 years from 1907 where he developed a system of Self Defence. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Fairbairn William E. Fairbairn] Wikipedia. [https://www.myselfdefensetraining.com/history-of-self-defense-fairbairns-defendu/ "History of Self Defense: Fairbairn's DEFENDU"] September 21, 2015 myselfdefensetraining.com.
: W E Fairbairn's first book ''Defendu. Scientific Self-Defence'' was published in Shanghai in 1926 and is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001192954, along with a number of his other titles, as is a biography ''The legend of W.E. Fairbairn : gentleman & warrior : the Shanghai years'' research by Peter Robins & Nicholas Tyler ; compiled & edited by Paul R. Child 2004 UIN: BLL01013468205. One volume, first published 1931, is available online, refer below.*[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 ([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dXZFAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]) ; ''Shanghai Saga'' by John Pal (an officer of Chinese Customs) UIN: BLL01002750919 ([https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LnAJAQAAIAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]) ; ''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. [https://issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary/docs/rhc-013574 A few sample pages] including front cover and Introduction. issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary.</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.
*''The Desk Hong List; A general and business directory for Shanghai and the Northern and River Ports etc''. [https://archive.org/details/1882deskhonglist 1882], [https://archive.org/details/1884deskhonglist 1884] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Desk+Hong+List%22%29&sort=date ''Shanghai Directory''] or similar title, mainly 1924-1941 broken range. Archive.org
* Searchable, but not viewable [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8xAbAAAAIAAJ ''Shantung Road Cemetery, Shanghai, 1846-1868: With Notes about Pootung Seamen's Cemetery [and<nowiki>]</nowiki> Soldiers' Cemetery''] by E. S. Elliston 1946 Google Books. This book was possibly filmed from the collection of Stanford University which holds this book.
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006044244 ''Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society''] Multiple volumes from 1860 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023927977/page/n5/mode/2up ''Return to an address of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 25 June, 1863 : for, "Copy of the correspondence between the military authorities at Shanghai and the War Office respecting the insalubrity of Shanghai as a station for European troops:" "And, numerical return of sickness and mortality of the troops of all arms at Shanghai, from the year 1860 to the latest date, showing the per-centage upon the total strength"''] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghai-war-book/mode/2up ''The Shanghai War Book. Being a register of many of the Britons and some of their allies on service from China with a few of those from Japan including a roll of honour ...''] published December 1915. Archive.org. Lists of those serving, wounded and died.
*[https://archive.org/details/gatewaytochina00unkngoog ''The gateway to China; pictures of Shanghai''] by Mary Ninde Gamewell 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906 Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India (Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, “Benares, Lucknow, Mirzapur and Lahore”), Rangoon, Singapore, Penang and '''Shanghai''', and of the major cities in Egypt. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n125/mode/1up "Shanghai"] , page 102 ''The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong'') by Carl Crow. Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/travelershandboo00crow#page/n128/mode/1up Plan of the Foreign Settlements, Shanghai]
:See [[China#General|China]] for Kotenev's 1931 book ''New Lamps for Old''.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oTy44G4c9ZMC&pg=PP1 ''Big Trifles and Little People: Memoirs of a Russian Nobleman''] by Anatol M. Kotenev 2000. Sample pages Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/fairbairnw.e.scientificselfdefencezlib.org/page/n1/mode/1up ''Scientific Self Defence''] by W E Fairbairn first published 1931 (catalogued 1942) Archive.org. Title page states "The Official Text Book for the Shanghai Municipal Police and Hong Kong Police".
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015050791709?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''China's Trial by Fire : the Shanghai War of 1932''] by Donald A Jordan 2001. HathiTrust Digital Library
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-59482203 4 online editions of ''North-China Sunday News Magazine Supplement''] dated 7, 14, 21, 28 February 1932. Click on "Browse this collection" for the 4 issues. The content includes war. Including
