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• Americans -- China
• China -- Fiction

• Ming Yellow (c1935), by John P. Marquand (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sand Pebbles (author died in 1964; c1962), by Richard McKenna (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• All Men are Brothers (Shui Hu Chan) (2 volumes; New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948), by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, trans. by Pearl S. Buck, contrib. by Lin Yutang, illust. by Miguel Covarrubias (both volumes: page images at CMU)
• Peter the Brazen: A Mystery Story of Modern China (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1919), by George F. Worts, illust. by Gayle Hoskins (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Painted Veil (c1925), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Metal Monster, by Abraham Merritt (Gutenberg text)
• The Mystery of the Ravenspurs: A Romance and Detective Story of Thibet and England (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub.Co., c1911), by Fred M. White, illust. by André C. De Takacs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Devil's Guard (1926), by Talbot Mundy
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• The Sand Pebbles (author died in 1964; c1962), by Richard McKenna (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Painted Veil (c1925), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Poor Man (London: Macmillan and Co., 1922), by Stella Benson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Dragon (London: G. Richards, 1913), by M. P. Shiel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sand Pebbles (author died in 1964; c1962), by Richard McKenna (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Vermilion Pencil: A Romance of China (New York: The McClure Co., 1908), by Homer Lea (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Treasure of Ho: A Romance (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924), by L. Adams Beck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Treasure of Ho: A Romance (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1929), by L. Adams Beck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Son of Heaven (New York and London: D. Appleton Century Co., 1935), by Princess Der Ling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ping Yao Zhuan, by Luo Guanzhong and Feng Menglong, trans. by Nathan Sturman (HTML with commentary at angelfire.com)

• Romance of Three Kingdoms (based on a 1925 translation, with modernized names, corrections, and notes), by Luo Guanzhong, ed. by Snow N. Snow, trans. by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor, contrib. by Rafe De Crespigny (HTML with commentary at threekingdoms.com)

• Shike (1981), by Robert Shea (HTML at bobshea.net)

• The Dragon (London: G. Richards, 1913), by M. P. Shiel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Tales: or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Related by Himself to Divert the Sultana, Upon the Celebration of Her Nuptials (second edition, with some added thoughts on transmigration; London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1740), by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, trans. by Thomas Stackhouse, contrib. by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: Gutenberg text
• Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, by Lu Xun, trans. by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)

• The Vermilion Gate: A Novel of a Far Land (New York: The John Day Company, c1953), by Lin Yutang (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dragon (London: G. Richards, 1913), by M. P. Shiel (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Devil's Guard (1926), by Talbot Mundy
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• The Making of a Missionary, or, Day Dreams in Earnest: A Story of Mission Work in China (New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1900), by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by W. S. Stacey (illustrated HTML at anglicanhistory.org)