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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Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'"] by Hugo Restall March 6, 2009 ''The Wall Street Journal'', now an archived page.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.
*[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.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822003666500?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Shanghai Problem''] by William Crane Johnstone 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020814672?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai and Tientsin, with special reference to foreign interests''] by F C Jones 1940. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghaicityfors009753mbp ''Shanghai: City For Sale''] Ernest O. Hauser 1940 Archive.org. Elsewhere, this book is stated to contain factual errors.<ref> See article "From 'Hunting Opium and Other Scents'..." by Hugo Restall, in External links , above.</ref>
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b40448?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Economic Shanghai: Hostage to Politics, 1937-1941''] by Robert W. Barnett 1941 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b658121?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Shanghai Lawyer''] by Norwood F. Allman 1943 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/yellowcreekstory0000davi/page/n7 ''Yellow Creek : the Story of Shanghai''] by J V Davidson-Houston 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghai00harr ''Shanghai''] by Harriet Sergeant 1998, originally published 1991. Shanghai in the 1920s and !930s. Archive.org Lending Library. Based on many interviews with past residents.
*Digital [http://www.vcea.net/Digital_Library/Book_originals_en.php Book originals] Visual Cultures in East Asia, a website connected with Virtual Shanghai, (refer above). The books are mainly connected with Shanghai and include a number of Handbooks for travellers and residents. Pdf downloads.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Shanghai%29&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&sort=date Books including ''Shanghai'' in the title] Archive.org.
*Fiction: **[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b63985?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Yangtze Skipper''], by Thomas Woodrooffe 1937. HathiTrust Digital Library. Set in 1919 Shanghai, Toby Warren is First Lieutenant on the "Beetle", a (fictious) Royal Navy river gunboat. The author served on HMS "Scarab" (river gunboat) in 1919-1920.*: Note, this may be the American title. Appears to be the same book as ''River of Golden Sand'' by Thomas Woodrooffe. [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19370128-1.2.62?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article A review of ''River of Golden Sand''] <ref>Books of the Week: ''Morning Tribune'', 28 January 1937, Page 16 nlb.gov.sg</ref>:*''Empire of the Sun'' by J G Ballard, first published 1984. [https://archive.org/details/empireofsun00ball/page/n1 Book File 1] 1994 reprint, [https://archive.org/details/empireofsunball00ball Book file 2] 1985 reprint. Archive.org Lending Library. A novel based on the author’s experiences in Shanghai during the Second World War, including internment from 1942 to 1945.
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