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*:[https://archive.org/details/redstaroverchina0000snow/mode/2up ''Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army''] by Edgar Snow 1937 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Catalogued 2013, and the longer title perhaps implying it is a reprint edition, although this is not stated. [httphttps://digitallibarchive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52426/page/n1/mode/2up 1944 edition with 1944 Preface] titled ''Red Star Over China''.stouArchive.acorg.thNote however, initial digital pages are either duplicated, or out of order.*[https:/handle/6625047444archive.org/details/2204 midnightinpeking00fren_0 ''New Lamps for OldMidnight in Peking: An Interpretation How the Murder of Events in Modern a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China and Whither They Lead''] by Paul French 2012. Archive.org Lending Library. A Anatol M Kotenevtrue story of a 1937 murder of a British schoolgirl. published Shanghai :[https: North//archive.org/details/MidnightInPeking ''Midnight In Peking''] by Paul French. BBC Radio Reading audio May-China Daily News & Herald, 1931June 2012. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, ThailandArchive. Elsewhere, about the authororg:[https: "As Russia fell //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 the communists, he escaped with his family listen online is to China and served with click on the British Colonial Service in Shanghai"Source_url". He was a noted lecturer and :Paul French is the author of several many books on the history "old" period in China, including ''The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking'' (2013) and politics of China"''Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day'', published 2017. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.157359/page/n5/mode/2up ''Far Eastern War 1937-1941''] by Harold S. Quigley 1942 Archive.org
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*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1847 ''The Dragon and the Foreign Devils''] by Johan Gunnar Andersson ; translated from the Swedish by Charles Wharton Stork 1928. Translation of the author's "Draken och de främmande djävlarna". Link to a number of pdf downloads STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand.
*[https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory0000unse_j3k5/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Political History of China, 1840-1928''] by Li Chien-Nung. Translated and Edited by Ssu-Yu Teng and Jeremy Ingalls. 1963 reprint edition, originally published 1956. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2204 ''New Lamps for Old: An Interpretation of Events in Modern China and Whither They Lead''] by Anatol M Kotenev. published Shanghai : North-China Daily News & Herald, 1931. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Elsewhere, about the author: "As Russia fell to the communists, he escaped with his family to China and served with the British Colonial Service in Shanghai. He was a noted lecturer and author of several books on the history and politics of China".
*[https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni00snow/page/n5 ''Journey to the Beginning''] by Edgar Snow 1958. [https://archive.org/details/journeytobeginni0000snow File 2: 1972 reprint]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Snow Edgar Snow] Wikipedia. Snow was an American journalist who lived in China for many years from 1928, best known for his book, ''Red Star Over China'' (1937), an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.
*[https://archive.org/details/JourneyToAWar/page/n1 ''Journey To A War''] by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood 1939 Archive.org. Travel diary of a trip to China in 1938, after the Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.157359/page/n5/mode/2up ''Far Eastern War 1937-1941''] by Harold S. Quigley 1942 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial0000hahn/page/n7 ''China to Me : a Partial Autobiography''] by Emily Hahn 1944. [https://archive.org/details/chinatomepartial00hahn 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/chinatome00hahn 3rd file] 1944 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hahn became a New Yorker magazine writer. The latter half of the book covers her experiences in Hong Kong under Japanese control. [http://www.librarything.com/work/144031/reviews/86980107 About the book] librarything.com. "classic memoir of her years in China remains remarkable for her insights into a tumultuous period and her frankness about her personal exploits. A proud feminist and fearless traveler, she set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War..."
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.86636/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Soong Sisters''] by Emily Kahn 1941 Archive.org. Mesdames Kung, Sun and Chiang, the wives of famous Chinese men.
:[https://archive.org/details/hongkongholiday0000unse/page/n327 ''Hong Kong Holiday''] by Emily Hahn 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/yearsthatwerefat008540mbp ''The Years That Were Fat Peking: 1933- 1940''] by George N Kates with photographs by Hedda Hammer Morrison 1952. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/yearsthatwerefat00kate/mode/2up 1967 reprint with better photographs] and title ''The Years That Were Fat: The Last of Old China''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfromchina0000clif/page/n5/mode/2up ''Retreat from China: British policy in the Far East, 1937-1941''] by Nicholas R Clifford 1967. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''Far East'' by Cecil Beaton 1945. [https://archive.org/details/fareast0000beat/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library version with better photographs], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217997/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version]. Well known photographer. During WW2 he worked for the UK Ministry of Information, which sent him to India, Burma and China 1943-1944 for six months (he was in China in 1944), as a war photographer.
: Also see [[Second World War]]
*[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
