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*[https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsamongma00yvanrich ''Six months among the Malays, and a year in China''] by Dr Yvan, Physician to the scientific mission sent by France to China, pub. 1855 Archive.org. The book appears to be translations of extracts from the book [https://archive.org/details/defranceenchine00yvangoog ''De France en Chine''] by Melchior Yvan 1855 Archive.org. This expedition departed France December 1843.

*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.536630/page/n3/mode/2up ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast. The Opening of the Treaty Ports 1842-1854''] by John King Fairbank. 2nd edition 1969, first published 1953. Archive.org.

*[https://archive.org/details/residencechinese00fort ''A residence among the Chinese inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856''] by Robert Fortune 1857 Archive.org

*[https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.84681/page/iv/mode/2up ''On the Coasts of Cathay and Cipango Forty Years Ago: A Record of Surveying Service in the China Yellow and Japan Seas and on the Seabord of Korea and Manchuria''] by William Blakeney RN, William; Illustrated by F le Breton Bedwell RN. 1902 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Asiatic Society of Mumbai Collection. The voyage commenced in 1856.

*[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/cu31924023038106 ''The Far East revisited; essays on political, commercial, social, and general conditions in Malaya, China, Korea and Japan''] by A. Gorton Angier, editor of the ''London and China Telegraph''. 1908 Archive.org

*[https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n11 ''Houseboat Days in China''] by J. O. P. Bland illustrated by W D Straight 1909. With a [https://archive.org/details/houseboatdaysinc00blan/page/n311/mode/1up Map of Country near Shanghai] digital page 312. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Otway_Percy_Bland John Otway Percy Bland] (Wikipedia) was a British writer and journalist, who lived in China for most of the period 1883–1910.

*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023611381 ''Sport and Travel in the Far East''] by J C Grew 1910 Archive.org. The travel occurred in 1902-1903. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Grew Joseph Grew] Wikipedia. He became an American diplomat, and from 1932-1941 was Ambassador to Japan.

:[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. For a further book by French, see [[Shanghai]].

*[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/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.