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*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. As a member of the Malayan Civil Service from 1921, he was soon after sent to Canton and Peking to study Chinese from [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/100 page 101].
*[https://archive.org/details/jestingpilateint00huxl/page/4/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : an Intellectual Holiday''] by Aldous Huxley 1926. Archive.org. Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/jestingpilatedia0000huxl/page/n7/mode/2up ''Jesting Pilate : the Diary of a Journey''] 1957 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library, and as ''Jesting Pilate: Travels Through India, Burma, Malaya, Japan, China, and America'' (1991).
*[http://digitallibrepository.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/dragon-foreign-devils-pt-01p-003-013/DragonForeignDevilsPt01p003-013/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[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://digitallibrepository.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. HathiTrust Digital Library. [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/Harry_Collingwood_A_Chinese_Command ''A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in the Eastern Seas''] by Harry Collingwood, (pseudonym i.e. William Joseph Cosens Lancaster). Illustrated by Arch. Webb. 1915 Archive.org. The main character Frobisher is a cashiered Royal Navy ex-officer who ends up commanding a Chinese battleship during the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. An adventure story. [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:William_Joseph_Cosens_Lancaster Author:William Joseph Cosens Lancaster] Wikisource.
*:[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200967 ''The Scarlet Stripe - being the adventures of a naval surgeon''] by 1932 Taffrail (Captain Henry Taprell Dorling R N) 1932 fadedpage.com, a Canadian website with many online books. A transcription. An adventure story. Includes piracies of coasting steamers in the China Seas, in line with actual events. He was also the author of ''Pirates'' published 1929, a story of the operations of the pirates in the Canton delta and of the duties of the British gunboats involved, which is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000969387 . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Taprell_Dorling H. Taprell Dorling] Wikipedia.
**[https://digitallibrepository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1700 ''Within the Four Seas : a Shantung Idyll''] by Paul Richard Abbott published Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1930. A series of chapter downloads from STOU Digital Repository, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. A description elsewhere says "A fictional tale of a young Chinese scholar who has run away from the tyranny of his family to work with the Chinese Labor Corps in France during the Great War". The author is stated to be an American missionary and the book is discussed from page 84 in [https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/45625/Yi-Ling_Lin.pdf?sequence=1 ''Cultural Engagement In Missionary China: American Missionary Novels 1880-1930''] by Yi-Ling Lin PhD Thesis in Comparative Literature, Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.16210/page/n7/mode/2up ''Juan In China''] by Eric Linklater. 1961 edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. Elsewhere<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Victor-Smolnikoff/dp/B08R7V6XBF?language=en_US ''The Diary of a Shanghai Physician''] by Victor Smolnikoff page 10 of the sample pages available in "Look inside". amazon.com</ref> it is stated "The Japanese artillery during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937, well described by Eric Linklater in his novel “ Juan in China” (practically every word is true)…"
