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**Multiple volumes as [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/discover?filtertype_1=title&filter_relational_operator_1=contains&filter_1=China&filtertype_2=title&filter_relational_operator_2=contains&filter_2=Asiatic&filtertype_3=title&filter_relational_operator_3=contains&filter_3=Society&submit_apply_filter=&query=&rpp=100&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=asc pdf downloads, Digital Library of India]
→Historical books online
**Section 3 Japan and China [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA105 pages 105-118]
**Section 4 China [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA209 pages 209 -220]
*''Chronicles of the East India Company trading to China, 1635 to 1834'' by Hosea Ballou Morse 1926. Five Volumes. Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 are available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, as TIFF images (single pages), or as pdf downloads: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/469930 Volume 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/503979 Volume 2] (volume no. not catalogued), [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/469931 Volume 3], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/524858 Volume 4], with mirror versions [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80805 Vol. I, Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.73362 Vol. III, Archive.org version], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533212 Vol. IV, Archive.org version], originally from Digital Library of India. All volumes are also available as pdf downloads from GIPE Digital Books-Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune. Volumes [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23767 1], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23769 2], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23770 3], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23771 4], [http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23772 5]. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924052145988?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume 5, Supplementary, 1742-74] Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n113/mode/2up "Canton"] page 97 ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India'' by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n15/mode/2up Contents]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=4wAyDgrnHicC&pg=PR1 ''A Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748. Containing an Account of the Islands of St. Helena and Java. Of the City of Batavia. Of the Government and Political Conduct of the Dutch. Of the Empire of China, with a Particular Description of Canton ...''] 1762 Google Books. The Preface states the author was an officer in the service of the East India Company.
*''The Portugues Asia: Or, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues; Containing All Their Discoveries from the Coast of Africk, to the Farthest Parts of China and Japan; All Their Battels by Sea and Land, Sieges and Other Memorable Actions; a Description of Those Countries, and Many Particulars of the Religion, Government and Customs of the Natives, &c. ... '' by Manuel de Faria e Sousa, a Portuguese historian. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens 1695
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=necrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP3 Volume I] Google Books; [https://archive.org/details/pli.kerala.rare.13625 Volume II] Archive. org mirror from Kerala State Central Library Rare Books Online; [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023860281.0x00000d Volume II], [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023866953.0x00000d Volume III] Qatar Digital Library. Two different pdf downloads are available from the University of Ghana Digital Collections , volume numbers not stated [httphttps://hdlquod.lib.handleumich.netedu/e/123456789eebo/8070 Download AA40887.0001.001 Transcribed version, Tomes [Volumes<nowiki>]</nowiki>I-III], note however, the contents of some of the various Tomes (Volumes) are listed out of [http://hdlchronological order. lib.handleumich.net/123456789/8167 Download B]edu. There was a three volume reprint edition published in 1971.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 "China"] page 1 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/viewofhindoostan3to4penn ''The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan''] by Thomas Pennant 1800. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n17/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n313/mode/2up Index]. Volume III in a series ''Outlines of the Globe'' but sometimes catalogued as Volume III in a series ''The View of Hindoostan''.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023558962 ''Canton and the Bogue. The narrative of an eventful six months in China''] by Walter William Mundy 1875 Archive.org. A visit in 1874.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023225471 ''Bits of Old China''] by William C Hunter 1885 Archive,org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t17m0602w?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''English Life In China''] by Major Henry Knollys, Royal Artillery. 1885 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501627 pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], originally on the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023226065 ''China, Past and Present''] by Edward Harper Parker 1903 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044098621162?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''China; Report on a Journey from Peking to Shanghai Overland'']. Presented to both Houses of Parliament June 1898 HMSO 1898. Hathi Trust Digital Library
:Also see [[Norperforce]] for more about the Kashgar Mission during WW1 prior to 1922.
:[https://archive.org/details/antiqueland00ship ''The Antique Land''] by Diana Shipton 1950. Archive.org Lending Library. A memoir by the wife of Eric Shipton, the last British consul in Kashgar before the consulate closed in 1947.
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Pdf downloadArchive.org, Digital Public Library of IndiaCollection. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 Archive.org version]. Full title: The ''Old Burma Road. A journey on foot and muleback. From the diary, notes and reminiscences of Doctor N. Bradley''. The author spent many years in China as a medical missionary. This is an account of a journey taken in March, 1930 on the granite slab road along which, 650 years earlier, Marco Polo had ridden with his escort of Kublai Khan's horsemen from Yunnan-Fu to Bhamo.
*''Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''. ''North'' appears to have been dropped from the title for a period.
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=p4ZhofZJl24C&pg=PA125 New Series No I December 1864], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bm-TQj1RnEwC&pg=PP5 New Series No II December 1865], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vpMY4e-BZisC&pg=PP7 New Series No III December 1866] Google Books
**Multiple volumes [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Journal%29%20AND%20title%3A%28China%29%20AND%20title%3A%28Asiatic%29 Archive.org]
**Multiple volumes Hathi Trust: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100223794 A], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886163 B], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000519144 C]
*[http://lib.hku.hk/database/ Digital Initiatives] from the [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Some databases are restricted to members of the University. For those databases which are freely available, click on Browse to see the titles available.
*Digital Collection of the University of Macau Library, [http://libdigital.umac.mo/was5/digital/500selected.jsp?iPage=1 Books on China Online, 16th – Early 20th Century].
