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*[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/redstaroverchina00snow/mode/2up ''Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army''] by Edgar Snow c 1938.
:[https://archive.org/details/redstaroverchina0000snow/mode/2up 2nd file] Catalogued 2013, and the longer title perhaps implying it is a reprint edition, although this is not stated. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52426/page/n1/mode/2up 1944 edition with 1944 Preface] titled ''Red Star Over China''. Note however, initial digital pages are either duplicated, or out of order. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.237507 Further file], catalogued 1938. Both Archive.org.
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*[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. [https://books.google.com.et/books?id=IZACAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books]. 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".
:For more books by Kotenev, see [[Shanghai#Historical books online|Shanghai - Historical books online]].
*''The True Glory : the Royal Navy, 1914-1939'' by Max Arthur 1996 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Personal accounts.
**[https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/230/mode/2up "Lieutenant Shannon Stevenson", page 231]. He served on the Yangtze River gunboat HMS Bee, one of the Insect class, one of about a dozen operating at the time, 1925-1927.
**[https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/242/mode/2up "Petty Officer Stan Smith", page 242] China c late 1920s - early 1930s.
**[https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/248/mode/2up "Engine Room Artificer Trevor Lewis", page 249] Hong Kong and China, including Shanghai during bombing, mid-late 1930s.
*[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/redstaroverchina00snow/mode/2up ''Red Star Over China - The Rise Of The Red Army''] by Edgar Snow c 1938.
:[https://archive.org/details/redstaroverchina0000snow/mode/2up 2nd file] Catalogued 2013, and the longer title perhaps implying it is a reprint edition, although this is not stated. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.52426/page/n1/mode/2up 1944 edition with 1944 Preface] titled ''Red Star Over China''. Note however, initial digital pages are either duplicated, or out of order. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.237507 Further file], catalogued 1938. Both Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/diplomacyenterpr0000endi ''Diplomacy and Enterprise : British China policy, 1933-1937''] by Stephen Lyon Endicott 1975. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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) [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Badlands/HprQgLF8s2IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages Google Books] and ''Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day'', published 2017[https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Bloody_Saturday_Shanghai_s_Darkest_Day_P/gsEvDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages Google Books]. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city.
*[https://archive.org/details/insideasia0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''Inside Asia''] by John Gunther 1939. The political situation in the late 1930s. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Chapters on China including
**[https://archive.org/details/insideasia0000unse/page/200/mode/2up Chapter XII "A Song of Soongs"] page 201. Also see the book by Emily Kahn, below.
*[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.2015.75631/page/n7/mode/2up ''China Fights Back An American Woman With The Eighth Route Army''] by Agnes Smedley 1938. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. :[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207541/page/n5/mode/2up ''Battle Hymn of China''] by Agnes Smedley 1944 Archive.org, mirror from DLI.:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Smedley Agnes Smedley] Wikipedia. American journalist.*[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, mirror from DLI.
*[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.
