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• Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (3 volumes, covering 1938-1992), by Deng Xiaoping (HTML in China)
• Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2023), by Zhiyi Yang (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• 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)

• Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies #24; Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1976), by Peter Williams Donovan, Carl E. Dorris, and Lawrence R. Sullivan (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik (page images at HathiTrust)

• India and Tibet (London: J. Murray, 1910), by Francis Edward Younghusband (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Wen-Hsin Yeh (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik (page images at HathiTrust)

• Schools Into Fields and Factories: Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1991), by Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exploring Hong Kong Films of the 1930s and 1940s (English edition, 2 volumes; Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, c2022), ed. by Kwok Ching-Ling and May Ng
  • Part 1 (Era and Film History): PDF with commentary at filmarchive.gov.hk
  • Part 2 (Genres, Regions, Culture): PDF with commentary at filmarchive.gov.hk

• Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2008), ed. by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang (Javascript-dependent page images at UC Press)

• Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), ed. by David A. Palmer and Xun Liu (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

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

• 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)

• 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 Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2024), by Stephanie Balkwill (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.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)

• 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)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.