Books related to Treaty Ports and the U.S. Navy in China


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An American in China: 1936-39 A Memoir - G. H. Thomas
The Sand Pebbles - VHS Video - Steve McQueen as a Gunboat Sailor in 1920s China. VHS Video
The Sand Pebbles - Written by a 1930s gunboatman. A romantic historical fiction account of the lives of the USN gunboats in the Yangtze Basin in the late 1920s. The 1984 reprint has a wonderful introduction going through many of the larger issues raised in the book.
Treaty Ports in China - by En-Sai Tai
China's Treaty Ports : Half Love and Half Hate - by Chris Elder (Editor) 
Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast : The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854 - by John King Fairbank
Yangtze Patrol : The U.S. Navy in China - by RAdm. Kemp Tolley, USN ret.
The Lonely Ships : The Life and Death of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet - by Edwin P. Hoyt
The Fleet the Gods Forgot : The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II - by W. G. Winslow
Gunboats on the Great River - by Gregory Haines
Gunboats and Marines : The United States Navy in China, 1925-1928 - by Bernard D. Cole
From China Marine to Jap Pow : My 1,364 Day Journey Through Hell... - by William Howard Chittenden
Captives of Shanghai : The Story of the President Harrison - by David H. Grover, Gretchen G. Grover
China Dreams : Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin (Singular Lives) - by Isabelle Maynard, Albert E. Stone 
Shanghai Refuge : A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto - by Ernest G. Heppner 
The Fugu Plan : The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War Two - by Marvin Tokayer, Mary Swartz 
My China: Jewish Life in the Orient 1900-1950 - by Yaacov Liberman, Ehud Olmert
Ghetto Shanghai - by Evelyn Pike Rubin
Behind the Barbed Wire : Memoir of a World War II U.S. Marine Captured in North China in 1941 and Imprisoned by the Japanese Until 1945 - by Chester M. Biggs Jr.
55 Days at Peking - Charlton Heston. VHS Video. A historical romance centered on the siege of the Legation Quarter in Peking during the Summer of 1900. 
Hostage on the Yangtze; Britain, China, and the Amethyst Crisis of 1949 by Malcolm H. Murfett

Updated 21 March 2005. Comments and additional book suggestions to: pr_abbey@hotmail.com.

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