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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• China: A Country Study (fourth edition, 1988), ed. by Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• The Chinese Empire: A Sequel to "Recollections of a Journey Through Tartary and Thibet" (new edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants (revised edition, 2 volumes; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by S. Wells Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• My Chinese Note Book (New York: E. P. Dytton; London: Methuen, c1904), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States (Pittsburgh: R. S. Davis and Co., 1877), by William Speer (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Ancient China Simplified (London: Chapman and Hall, 1908), by Edward Harper Parker (Gutenberg text)

• Chinese Grave-Sculptures of the Han Period (London: E. L. Morice; et al., 1911), by Berthold Laufer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Serindia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China (5 volumes, 1921), by Aurel Stein (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)

• Crisis in the Taiwan Strait (1997), ed. by James R. Lilley and Chuck Downs (PDF page images at ndu.edu)

• A Chinese Biographical Dictionary (New York: Paragon Book Gallery, ca. 1898), by Herbert Allen Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• China's First Hundred (Pullman, WA: State College of Washington, 1942), by Thomas E. La Fargue (page images at HathiTrust)

• Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2012), ed. by Franck Billé, Grégory Delaplace, and Caroline Humphrey
  • HTML at openbookpublishers.com
  • page images at Google

• Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation, and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by Thomas S. Mullaney, James Leibold, Stéphane Gros, and Eric Vanden Bussche (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)
• The Humanization of Technology and Chinese Culture (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1998), ed. by Tomonobu Imamichi, Wang Miaoyang, and Liu Fangtong (PDF at crvp.org)
• Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1977), by D. E. Mungello (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Our Chinese Ally (1944), by Owen Lattimore and Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Civilization of China, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
• Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion: China (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878), by Samuel Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, and Chinese Cultures, by Tang Yi-Jie (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Problem of China, by Bertrand Russell (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.