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***[http://visualisingchina.net/blog/2013/08/19/who-took-the-photographs/ Who took the photographs?] by Robert Bickers August 19, 2013
*[http://robertbickers.net History, empire, China, and things found on the way]. Professor Robert Bickers’s website.
*[http://www.chinarhyming.com China Rhyming] with links to many websites about "old China".
*[http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/4145/1/Challenging%20Dead_final.pdf ''Challenging Dead. A Look into Foreigners’ Cemeteries in Macau, Hong Kong, and Taiwan''] by Gotelind Müller 2018. crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de.
*[https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/tag/china/ Blogs tagged China, from SOAS Archives] includes "200 years of Swire: The China Navigation Company", September 25, 2016. Scroll down for others. SOAS, (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London.
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*''Homeward Mail from India, China and the East'' is available on [[findmypast]], category "Newspapers & periodicals", with the same contents also available on the British Newspaper Archive, both pay websites. The date range is 1 January 1857 to 27 December 1913. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#Homeward Mail from India, China and the East|Newspapers and journals online]].
*Japan Directories
**[https://archive.org/details/japangazettehon00unkngoog ''The "Japan Gazette" Hong List and Directory, for 1874''] Archive.org. '''Note''': some of the text is missing- it is not clear whether this relates to the filming, or the original publication.
*''The China Sea Directory'' by the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London.
**''The China Sea Directory Volume I. Containing directions for the approaches to the China Sea and to Singapore, by the straits of Sunda, Banka, Gaspar, Carimata, Rhio, Varella, Durian, and Singapore'' by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nP4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 1867] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071164960 3rd edition 1886] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. As a member of the Malayan Civil Service from 1921, he was soon after sent to Canton and Peking to study Chinese from [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/100 page 101].
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/midnightinpeking00fren_0 ''Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China''] by Paul French 2012. Archive.org Lending Library. A true story of a 1937 murder of a British schoolgirl.
:[https://archive.org/details/MidnightInPeking ''Midnight In Peking''] by Paul French. BBC Radio Reading audio May-June 2012. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/podcast_rthkbookmarks_paul-french-on-midnight-pek_1000334705726 Paul French on ''Midnight in Peking''] 2013 podcast by Radio Television Hong Kong on Archive.org. One way to listen online is to click on the "Source_url".
:Paul French is the author of many books on the "old" period in China, including ''The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking'' (2013) and ''Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day'', published 2017. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city.
*''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
====Japan====
*[https://archive.org/details/japangazettehon00unkngoog ''The "Japan Gazette" Hong List and Directory, for 1874''] Archive.org. '''Note''': some of the text is missing- it is not clear whether this relates to the filming, or the original publication.
* ''A History of Japan'' by James Murdoch. v. 1. ''From the origins to the arrival of the Portuguese in 1542 A.D''. -- [v. 2.]'' During the century of early foreign intercourse (1542-1651)'' / in collaboration with Isoh Yamagata. -- v. 3. ''The Tokugawa epoch, 1652-1868'' / rev. and ed. by Joseph H. Longford. [https://archive.org/details/historyofjapan01murd/page/n7 Volume I] 1910; [https://archive.org/details/historyofjapan03murd/page/n7 Volume II] 1903; [https://archive.org/details/historyofjapan03murd/page/n7 Volume III] 1926. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diplomatinjapani00sato ''A Diplomat in Japan; the inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored''] by Sir Ernest Satow 1921 Archive.org. The author was in Japan from September 1862, when he was initially appointed to the British legation as a student Interpreter at Yedo/Yokohama. Includes the 1864 Shimonoski Naval actions, including British, page [https://archive.org/stream/diplomatinjapani00sato#page/102/mode/2up 102]
*''Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo. A narrative of the settlement and the city from the signing of the treaties in 1858, to the close of the year 1879. With a glance at the progress of Japan during a period of twenty-one years'' by John R Black formerly editor of the ''Japan Herald''. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071147825 Volume I] 1880, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924071147833 Volume II] 1881
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22+Japan+Daily+Mail%22%29&sort=titleSorter ''The Japan Daily Mail''] , a broken range from 1888 to 1917. Archive.org
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