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**One of the books available to read is [http://web.archive.org/web/20010529063420/http://www.earnshaw.com:80/shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/baby/t-baby.htm ''The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby''], by Elsie McCormick first published c 1922, or earlier. A review<ref>[http://shanghailander.net/2008/09/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby/ ''The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby''] shanghailander.net</ref> says "The writing is easy to read and very humorous. It is a great introduction to old Shanghai, but also contains many details of the period that make in an invaluable resource for research on this topic".
*: Also available as selected extracts (not complete text) in ''Maclean’s “Canada’s National Magazine”'' 1 February 1924 to 1 April 1924. With illustrations by Lou Skouce. [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/2/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 1], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/2/15/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 2], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/3/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 3], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/3/15/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 4], [https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1924/4/1/the-unexpurgated-diary-of-a-shanghai-baby 5] macleans.ca
*[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1743 ''Shanghai: its municipality and the Chinese; being the history of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and its relations with the Chinese, the practice of the International Mixed Court, and the inauguration and constitution of the Shanghai Provisional Court''] by Anatol M. Kotenev 1927 virtualshanghai.net. Also available [http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books?ID=1743 Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique /Asian Digital Library]
: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.
*[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
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghairefugeme00hepp/page/n3 ''Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto''] by Ernest G. Heppner 1993. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/strangehavenjewi0000tobi ''Strange haven : a Jewish childhood in wartime Shanghai''] by Sigmund Tobias 1999. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/voicesfromshangh0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''Voices from Shanghai : Jewish exiles in wartime China''] edited and translated by Irene Eber 2008. Books to Borrow/Archive.org Lending Library.
:[http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books?ID=1958 ''The Jacquinot Safe Zone: Wartime refugees in Shanghai''] by Marcia R.Ristaino 2008. Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique /Asian Digital Library. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/jacquinot-safe-zone-wartime-refugees-in-shanghai-by-marcia-r-ristaino-stanford-ca-stanford-university-press-2008-pp-224-isbn-10-0804757933-13-9780804757935/AB4E32EB37732BBC3E1A10D0047C0FEF Page 1 of a review about the book]. Jacquinot, a Jesuit priest, provided refuge for Chinese civilians.
*[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?of=1&os=a E Library, Virtual Shanghai] including
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1677 ''Four months of war; a pen and picture record of the hostilities between Japan and China in an around Shanghai, from August 9th till December 20th, 1937, from the press of the North-China Daily News''] 1937. Also available [http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books?ID=1677 Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique /Asian Digital Library]
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1 ''Streets of Shanghai. A history in itself''] by A H Gordon 1941.
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1264 Programme of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps Centenary Dinner held at The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club on Fiday, 2nd April 1954], including list of SVC Commandants, moblizations, brief history, menu, Roll of Members, plan of the Battle of Muddy Flat, and text of 'Maloo Memoires'.
**[https://www.virtualshanghai.net/Texts/E-Library?ID=1676 ''The Sino-Western miscellany : being historical notes about foreign life in China. Vol. 2, The origins of the roads and road names in foreign Shanghai: the French concession''] by JH Haan 1993
*[http://www.bnasie.eu/BN/Books Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique/ Asian Digital Library] Includes English language books on Shanghai. There appears to be some connection with ''Virtual Shanghai'', see previous website, with at least some overlap.
*[https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7870085f&chunk.id=d0e3969&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=ucpress "Chapter Four Shanghai"] page 239 ''Shanghai on the Métro: Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars'' by Michael B. Miller 1994. UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004. A transcription. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=X2eTBtFWQdUC&pg=PP1 Sample pages only] Google Books.
*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.
