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• China -- History -- 18th century
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• China -- History -- Biography
• China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901
• China -- History -- Chronology
• China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949
• China -- History -- Guangxu, 1875-1908
• China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
• China -- History -- Jiaqing, 1796-1820
• China -- History -- Northern Expedition, 1926-1928
• China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842
• China -- History -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
• China -- History -- Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C.
• China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
• China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949
• China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912
• China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279
• China -- History -- Sources
• China -- History -- Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864
• China -- History -- Tatar Conquest, 1643-1644
• China -- History -- Three kingdoms, 220-265
• China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
• China -- History -- To 221 B.C.
• China -- History -- Warlord period, 1916-1928
• China -- History -- Xuantong, 1908-1912
• China -- History -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368
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• Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
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• Ancient China Simplified (London: Chapman and Hall, 1908), by Edward Harper Parker (Gutenberg text)
• China and the Manchus, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• China; With a Supplementary Chapter of Recent Events, by Demetrius Charles Boulger, contrib. by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (Gutenberg text)
• The Civilization of China, by Herbert Allen Giles (Gutenberg text)
• 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)

• On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)
• Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)

• The Truth About Communism in China (New York: West Meets East Committee, ca. 1939), contrib. by Harry McNeill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• China at War (London: Faber and Faber, 1939), by Freda Utley (PDF at fredautley.com)
• Japan's Gamble in China (London: Secker and Warburg, 1938), by Freda Utley (PDF at fredautley.com)
• What is Japan Fighting For? The Truth About the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937), by Japanese Association of America and Japanese Association of San Francisco (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party in the Period of Resistance to Japan, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)

• Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (3 volumes, covering 1938-1992), by Deng Xiaoping (HTML in China)
• Letters From China, and Some Eastern Sketches (London: Murray and Evenden, ca. 1911), by Jay Denby, illust. by H. W. G. Hayter
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Letters of a Shanghai Griffin, by Jay Denby (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• La Guerre de Chine: Dieu le veut! Assassinats, Incendies, Viols et Pillages Commis et Racontés par les Officiers et Soldats Français aux Ordres des Missionnaires (in French; Paris: L'Aurore, 1901), by Urbain Gohier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters From China, With Particular Reference To The Empress Dowager and the Women of China (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Sarah Pike Conger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Whither China? An Economic Interpretation of Recent Events in the Far East (New York: International Publishers, c1927), by Scott Nearing (page images at HathiTrust)

• De Calendario Sinico Variae Notiones: Calendarii Sinici et Europaei Concorantia (in Latin and Chinese; Shanghai: Ex typ. Missionis Catholicae, 1885), by Pierre Hoang
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Chinese Reader's Manual: A Handbook of Biographical, Historical, Mythological, and General Literary Reference (reprinted from the edition of 1874; London: Probsthain and Co.; Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1910), by William Frederick Mayers (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Rise of the Chinese Empire (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Chun-shu Chang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slavery in China During the Former Han dynasty, 206 B.C.-A.D. 25 (anthropological series v34; Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1943), by C. Martin Wilbur (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976), by Susan Naquin (PDF files at Ohio State)

• The Northern Expedition: China's National Revolution of 1926-1928 (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1976), by Donald A. Jordan (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• 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)

• Our Chinese Ally (1944), by Owen Lattimore and Eleanor Holgate Lattimore
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Rise of the Chinese Empire (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Chun-shu Chang (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Madeleine Zelin (HTML at UC Press)

• China's Millions (New York: Coward-McCann, 1928), by Anna Louise Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American Diplomat in China (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1922), by Paul S. Reinsch
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Fight for the Republic in China (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917), by B. L. Putnam Weale
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Fight for the Republic in China (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1918), by B. L. Putnam Weale
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Revolutionaries, Monarchists, and Chinatowns: Chinese Politics in the Americas and the 1911 Revolution (originally published 1990; open access edition Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2019), by L. Eve Armentrout Ma (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Taeping Rebellion in China; A Narrative of its Rise and Progress, Based Upon Original Documents and Information Obtained in China (London: J. Murray, 1862), by Lindesay Brine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Visions of Hung-Siu-Tshuen, and Origin of the Kwang-Si Insurrection (Hong Kong: The China mail office, 1854), by Theodore Hamberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tsêng Kuo-fan and the Taiping Rebellion; With a Short Sketch of His Later Career (Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany, v18; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927), by William James Hail
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Was There a Tiananmen Massacre? The Visit of General Chi: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, December 18, 1996 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States House Committee on International Relations (multiple formats at archive.org)
• People's Republic of China Nine Years After Tiananmen: Still a "Counter-Revolutionary Riot"? (1998), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• Upheaval in China! (1989), by Tom Barrett and Xiao Dian (HTML at marxists.org)

• The Rise of the Chinese Empire (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Chun-shu Chang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Chou-King: Un des Livres Sacrés des Chinois qui Renferme les Fondements de Leur Ancienne Histoire, les Principes de Leur Gouvernement et de Leur Morale (Shu jing in French; Paris: N. M. Tilliard, 1770), ed. by Joseph de Guignes, trans. by Antoine Gaubil, contrib. by Confucius
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Shu King: or, The Chinese Historical Classic: Being an Authentic Record of the Religion, Philosophy, Customs and Government of the Chinese From the Earliest Times (compilation traditionally attributed to Confucius; London and Varanasi: Theosophical Pub. Society; New York: J. Lane, 1904), ed. by Sepharial, contrib. by Confucius
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Modern Chinese Warlordism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Edward Allen McCord (HTML at UC Press)

• The Manchu Abdication and the Powers, 1908-1912: An Episode in Pre-War Diplomacy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1935), by John Gilbert Reid (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• The Autobiography of a Chinese Historian: Being the Preface to a Symposium on Ancient Chinese History (Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1931), by Gu Jiegang, ed. by Arthur W. Hummel (page images at delpher.nl)

• Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)

• What is Japan Fighting For? The Truth About the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937), by Japanese Association of America and Japanese Association of San Francisco (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Japan's Gamble in China (London: Secker and Warburg, 1938), by Freda Utley (PDF at fredautley.com)
• China and the U.S.A. (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by Earl Browder
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at flvc.org
• The Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party in the Period of Resistance to Japan, by Mao Zedong (HTML at marxists.org)

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