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*[http://www.steelnavy.com/1250ChinaStation.htm On China Station: Gunboat Diplomacy in China] steelnavy.com
*[http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/plymouth-military-graves-desecrated-china/story-20024636-detail/story.html#1 "Plymouth military graves desecrated in China"] November 02, 2013. plymouthherald.co.uk. British Naval base graveyard at Weihaiwei. Includes photographs of submarines c 1931. Same story [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486695/Chinese-authorities-dug-dozens-British-war-graves-used-headstones-BUILDING-says-son-submariner-died-1933.html dailymail.co.uk] 4 November 2013.
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80030649 2008 interview with Gawain Thomas Alexander 'Gavin’ Douglas] , born 1914. Reel 1: Background in Tiensin, (now Tianjin), Hong Kong, China and GB, 1914-1933: memories of early life in Tiensin; Imperial War Museums.
===Historical books online===
*Article in the ''Asiatic Journal'', Volume 13, January-June 1822. "A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated":
*[http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/China-Bibliographie/blog/ Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0] Online books. "This project is an addition (and a new horizon) for "Western Books on China in Libraries in Vienna/Austria, 1477-1939"". univie.ac.at
*Fiction: [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41366 ''The Flying Boat: A Story of Adventure and Misadventure''] by Herbert Strang 1912. Gutenberg.org. Young British traders in China. An adventure story for younger readers.
*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, so and it appears very possible the is stated elsewhere, in respect of another book is a realistic depiction, that he wrote about things actually seen and experienced.
: Note, this title may be the American title as it 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>
