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*[https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsinroya00scotuoft#page/164/mode/2up Wei-Hai-Wei] c 1900 page 165 ''Fifty Years in the Royal Navy'' by Admiral Sir Percy Scott 1919. Archive.org.
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Following the fall of the Manchu dynasty China was plunged into civil war and Japanese intervention, and international forces were sent to preserve foreign interests. The [[30th Regiment of Foot|30th]], [[34th Regiment of Foot|34th]], [[47th Regiment of Foot|47th]], [[55th Regiment of Foot|55th]], [[59th Regiment of Foot|59th]], and [[81st Regiment of Foot|81st]], all served there in the 1920s and 30s, guarding the legations in Peking and defending international settlements at Tientsin, Canton, and most importantly Shanghai.<ref>[https://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Regimental_History.pdf The Regimental History of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment] army.mod.uk</ref>The Shanghai Defence Force was established by the British Government during a period of tension in 1927, see [[Shanghai]] for more details. An additional regiment known to have been in China in the 1920s is the [[2nd Regiment of Foot |Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment]] - there may be others.
Also see "Historical Books online", below for a c 1900 description of information about Wei-hai-wei, and the fictional account, based on personal experience, ''Yangtze Skipper''. The author served on HMS "Scarab" (river gunboat) in 1919-1920.
==Also see==
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/chinamartyrsof1900fors ''The China Martyrs of 1900.
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors'']
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft ''Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources''] by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/liondragoninnort00john/page/n9 ''Lion and Dragon in Northern China''] by Reginald Fleming Johnston 1910 Archive.org. The photographs may be better in the [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48782/48782-h/48782-h.htm Gutenberg.org version]. This book is about Wei-hai-wei.
:[https://archive.org/stream/fiftyyearsinroya00scotuoft#page/164/mode/2up Wei-Hai-Wei] c 1900 page 165 ''Fifty Years in the Royal Navy'' by Admiral Sir Percy Scott 1919. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023286838/page/n4 ''China Inland Mission private telegraph code''] 1913 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/pekingoverlandro00thom/page/n5 ''Peking and the overland route''] Published by Thos. Cook & Son 3rd edition 1917 Archive.org
:[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501356 ''The Old Burma Road''] 1945. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/talesfromsouthch00alle ''Tales from the South China Seas : images of the British in South-East Asia in the twentieth century''] by Charles Allen 1984. Originally commissioned by, and broadcast on BBC Radio as oral history documentaries. Archive.org Lending Library. Contains limited accounts about China. For a similar book with accounts about China, see ''The Lion and the Dragon: British Voices from the China Coast'' by Christopher Cook 1985, not available online but available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011027097
*''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
