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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023061504/page/n8 ''A land journey from Asia to Europe : being an account of a camel and sledge journey from Canton to St. Petersburg through the plains of Mongolia and Siberia''] by William Athenry Whyte 1871 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
→Historical books online
:''The International Relations of the Chinese Empire'' by Hosea Ballou Morse. ''I The Period of Conflict, 1834-1860. II. The Period of Submission, 1861-1893. III. The period of Subjection, 1894-1911''. Published 1910 to 1918.
:[https://archive.org/details/internationalrel00mors/page/n5/mode/2up Volume I] (probably 2nd edition), [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel01mors/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. I, 2nd file, but missing title page] (appears to have been author/publishing decision); [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel02mors Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/internationalrel03mors/page/n5/mode/2up Volume III] All Archive.org.
====Directories etc====
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044014172761?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Shanghai Almanac'' 1856] Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MYdA2zTNYRkC&pg=PP9 ''The Hongkong Directory: With List of Foreign Residents in China''] 1859 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/chinawhoswho1922 ''The China Who's Who 1922: A Biographical Dictionary''] compiled and published by Carroll Lunt. 1922 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023172640#page/n5/mode/2up ''Record of Services Given and Honours Attained by Members of the Chinese Customs Service, War 1914-1918''] Published 1922, Shanghai. Archive.org
====General====
*''The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto ... during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchin-China, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies''. Done into English by H C [Henry Cogan] [https://archive.org/details/b30320586/page/n9/mode/2up 1663 edition], [https://archive.org/details/voyagesadventure00pint/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd edition, corrected and amended 1663] First Portuguese edition 1614.
:''The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese (done into English by Henry Cogan) with an Introduction by Arminius Vambery''. A volume in ''The Adventure Series''. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183410/page/n11/mode/2up Abridged and Illustrated edition 1891], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924011271826/page/n7/mode/2up Popular edition 1897] All Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023927977 ''British Parliamentary Papers: Mortality of Troops in China 1863 and 1866''] Reprinted 1915 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-9QMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Treaty Ports of China and Japan: A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a Guide Book & Vade Mecum for Travellers, Merchants, and Residents in General''] by William Frederick Mayers, N B Dennys, and Charles King 1867. '''Note''': The maps have not been filmed. Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SVsXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Reports of Missionary Society Hospitals at Amoy, Canton, Chinkiang, Foochow, Hankow, Shanghai, Swatow, Tientsin. 1848-75''] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/straitsofmalacca00thom_0 ''Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China; or Ten Years Travels, Adventures and Residence Abroad''] by J Thomson 1875 Archive.org
*[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 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501627 Archive.org version], originally on the Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924079597948 ''The Land of the Dragon. My boating and shooting excursions to the gorges of the Upper Yangtze''] by William Spencer Percival, H B M’s [His Her Britannic Majesty's] Civil Service China 1889 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023517745 ''Twenty Years in the Far East : Sketches of Sport, Travel and Adventure''] by William Spencer Percival 1905 Archive.org
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023226065 ''China, Past and Present''] by Edward Harper Parker 1903 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/lifesportinchina00readrich/page/n5 ''Life and Sport in China''] by Oliver George Ready 1904 2nd edition, possibly first published 1903. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023247061 2nd file, with white pages] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924014072791/page/n9/mode/2up ''European Settlements in the Far East; China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, etc''] by DWS [catalogued as D Warres Smith] 1900 Archive.org. The author appears to have been the publisher of/associated with the annual publication ''Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan…'', see further above for online editions.
*[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/thunderoutofchin0000unse_n1m9/page/n5/mode/2up ''Thunder out of China''] by Theodore H. White (Theodore Harold) and Annalee Jacoby 1946. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo0000unse_k4j5/page/n3/mode/2up ''A military history of modern China, 1924-1949''] by F F Liu (Frederick Fu) 1956. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/mypleasurespalac00huss/mode/2up ''My Pleasures and Palaces; an Informal Memoir of Forty Years in Modern China''] by Harry Hussey 1968. [https://archive.org/details/mypleasurespalac0000huss/page/n6/mode/2up File 2]. An architect born 1881, he was in China from 1911. He left his home in Peking early 1949, ahead of the takeover by Communist troops. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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
*Series ''Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939'', published by HMSO. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190131182335/https://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom Details] of the volumes (diplomatic-documents.org, archived page), published between 1946 and 1986.
====Journeys, and Central Asia====
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta. 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023061504/page/n8 ''A land journey from Asia to Europe : being an account of a camel and sledge journey from Canton to St. Petersburg through the plains of Mongolia and Siberia''] by William Athenry Whyte 1871 Archive.org
*''The River of Golden Sand: being the Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah'' by Captain William Gill R. E. [https://archive.org/details/riverofgoldensan01gill Volume I 1880], [https://archive.org/details/rivergoldensand02yulegoog Volume II 1880] [https://archive.org/details/cu31924023220217 Condensed [memorial<nowiki>]</nowiki> edition 1883] Archive.org
*''Mandalay to Momien : A Narrative of the Two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne'' by John Anderson 1876. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924083648836 Archive.org version], also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059B74 British Library Digital Collection] with rotatable images.
:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005E37A ''Report on the Railway Connexion of Burmah and China ... with account of exploration-survey by H. S. Hallett. Accompanied by surveys, vocabularies and appendices''] by Archibald R Colquhoun 1888
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924100340896 ''An Australian in China, being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to British Burma''] by George Ernest Morrison 2nd edition 1895 Archive.org. Also available [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003548A British Library Digital Collection] 1895 [1st edition?] with rotatable images.
*[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. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/yankeeonyangtzeb00geil ''A Yankee on the Yangtze; being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma''] by William Edgar Geil ... With one hundred full-page illustrations 1904 London edition with a [https://archive.org/stream/yankeeonyangtzeb00geil#page/n25/mode/1up map] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/frompekingtoman01johngoog/page/n14 ''From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma Through Tibetan Ssuchʻuan and Yunnan''] by R F Johnston 1908 Archive.org. Incomplete map. [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49561/49561-h/images/i_map.jpg Map] from the [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49561 Gutenberg.org edition].
