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:[https://web.archive.org/web/20131204181612/http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/uk/ops1919-39.html British Military Operations 1919-1939] by Graham Watson is a selection of orders of battle of various operations carried out by the British Army in the years between the wars. Scroll to the section "Shanghai 1927". orbat.com, now archived.
*[http://www.steelnavy.com/1250ChinaStation.htm On China Station: Gunboat Diplomacy in China] steelnavy.com
*[https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/37423 ''Changes and challenges: The Royal Navy's China Station and Britain's East Asian empire during the 1920s''] by Matthew Joseph Heaslip. University of Exeter thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Maritime History, November 2018. [https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/37423/HeaslipM.pdf Direct pdf]. Subsequently this thesis formed the basis of ''Gunboats, Empire and the China Station. The Royal Navy in 1920s East Asia'' [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rVAEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages Google Books].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140228092554/http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/plymouth-military-graves-desecrated-china/story-20024636-detail/story.html "Plymouth military graves desecrated in China"] November 02, 2013. plymouthherald.co.uk, now archived. British Naval base graveyard at Weihaiwei. Includes photographs of submarines c 1931. Same story [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486695/Chinese-authorities-dug-dozens-British-war-graves-used-headstones-BUILDING-says-son-submariner-died-1933.html dailymail.co.uk] 4 November 2013.
*Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80005208 1981 interview with Robert Charles Beckett Anderson] born 1895, British officer… served with 2nd Bn Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in New Zealand, Jamaica, China, Hong Kong and India, 1925-1935; served with Hong Kong Defence Force, 1936-1939 Imperial War Museums. Catalogue number 5251.
*''Home News for India, China and the Colonies'' 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 from 7 January 1847, with eventual coverage to 1896. For more details see [[Newspapers and journals online#Home News for India, China and the Colonies|Newspapers and journals online]].
*''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]].
*For some newspapers published in Japan, see the [[China#Japan 2|Japan]] section below.
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**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aL2YtgEACAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Oriental Navigator, Or, Directions for Sailing To, From, and Upon the Coasts Of, the East-Indies, China, Australia, Etc.''] by Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d' Après de Mannevillette 3rd edition revised by John Purdy 1816. Google Books. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024562804.0x000001 British Library Digital version].
:[https://archive.org/details/farchinastationu0000john/mode/2up ''Far China Station : the U.S. Navy in Asian Waters, 1800-1898''] by Robert Irwin Johnson 2013, first published 1979. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:Sample pages [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zTc4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1833 ''Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China''] by Kemp Tolley 2013. Google Books
:Sample pages [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YxLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''The Royal Navy, China Station 1864 - 1941: As seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief''] by Jonathan Parkinson. 2018. Title on title page is ''The China Station, Royal Navy: A History as seen through the lives of the Commanders in Chief, 1864-1941''.
*''A naturalist in Western China : with vasculum, camera, and gun, being some account of eleven year's travel, exploration, and observation in the more remote parts of the flowery kingdom'' by Ernest Henry Wilson 1913. [https://archive.org/details/naturalistinwest01wils/page/n9 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/naturalistinwest02wils/page/n7 Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.155680 ''Ernest H. Wilson Plant Hunter''] [1876-1930] by Edward I Farrington 1931. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[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://archive.org/details/new-lamps-for-old-1931/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. 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]].
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b53047?urlappend=%3Bseq=8%3Bownerid=9007199259065623-12 ''I Sailed with Chinese Pirates''] by Aleko E. Lilius 1931, first published 1930. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleko_Lilius Aleko Lilius] Wikipedia. Lilius was a journalist. The book was reprinted at least twice, in 1991 and 2010, the latter with a Foreword by Paul French, see French's books further below.
*[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.
*''Things Chinese being Notes on various subjects connected with China'' by J Dyer Ball H M Civil Service, Hong Kong.
:[https://archive.org/details/thingschinesebei00balliala/page/n5/mode/2up 1892 edition]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschineseor00ballgoog/page/n8/mode/2up 2nd edtion, revised and enlarged 1893]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschinesebei00ball 3rd edition revised and enlarged 1900]; [https://archive.org/details/thingschineseor01ballgoog 4th edition 1904] with title ''Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China''. All Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/thefareasternreview?&sort=date ''The Far Eastern Review''] Collection at Archive.org. Published between 1904 and 1941, it was initially published in Manila but later was based in Shanghai. Engineering - Commerce - Finance were three key words on the cover of the journal and in addition to politics many articles were related to technology, trade and infrastructure in the broader region.
*[https://archive.org/details/thechinaweeklyreview?&sort=date ''The China Weekly Review''] Collection at Archive.org. Various titles from 1917 to 1940, published as ''Millard's Review of the Far East'' - 1917-1921.6 then ''The Weekly Review of the Far East'' - 1921.6-1923 and ''The China Weekly Review'' 1923 onward.
*[http://lib.hku.hk/database/ Digital Initiatives] from the [http://lib.hku.hk/ University of Hong Kong Libraries]. Some databases are restricted to members of the University. For those databases which are freely available, click on Browse to see the titles available.
:[https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk DigitalRepository@HKUL] This appears to be a more recent website from the same source The University of Hong Kong Libraries, which includes the collections as above, and perhaps additional collections/material.
