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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.
: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.
*[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Opium and Other Scents' to '400 Million Customers'"] by Hugo Restall March 6, 2009 ''The Wall Street Journal'', now an archived page.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
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20090221131015/http://earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-library.htm Online Library] from the archived website ''Tales of Old Shanghai''. Note, most of the books appear to have text. If the book you select does not appear to contain text, try clicking on an earlier (or later) archived link, and text may be available.
**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 part of ''Audacious Angles Of China'' (see above) and 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://archive.org/details/chinesecitybetwe00chin/mode/2up ''The Chinese city between two worlds''] edited by Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner 1974. Includes chapters on Shanghai and [[Canton]]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/easternbankinges0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up ''Eastern banking : essays in the history of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation''] edited by Frank H H King 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/shanghai00harr ''Shanghai''] by Harriet Sergeant 1998, originally published 1991. Shanghai in the 1920s and !930s1930s. 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://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 FidayFriday, 2nd April 1954], including list of SVC Commandants, moblizationsmobilizations, 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.
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16210/page/n7/mode/2up ''Juan In China''] by Eric Linklater. 1961 edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. Elsewhere<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Victor-Smolnikoff/dp/B08R7V6XBF?language=en_US ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician''] by Victor Smolnikoff page 10 of the sample pages available in "Look inside". amazon.com</ref> it is stated "The Japanese artillery during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937, well described by Eric Linklater in his novel “ Juan in China” (practically every word is true)…"
**[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 (fictiousfictitous) 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.
