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India Office Records (IOR)
Bundesarchiv Potsdam (BAP)
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Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem (CAHJP)
Archive of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau for Emigrants
German Foreign Ministry Archives, Bonn (AA)
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Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California (HIA)
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Karl von Wiegand diaries and papers
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Public Record Office, Kew (PRO)
ADM 223
FO 228
FO 369
FO 371
FO 372
FO 405
FO 656
FO 676
FO 916
HS 1
WO 106
WO 208
Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
Chatham House Shanghai Study Group papers (1938)
School of Oriental and African Studies, London University (SOAS)
Butterfield & Swire records
China Association papers
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Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
‘Bulletin d’Information Economique sur la Chine’ (cyclostyled serial produced during the war by the French Consulate-General in Shanghai)
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OSS records (Record Group 226)
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