English-language fictions written by Western expatriates and set in Hong Kong and China

English-language fictions written by Western expatriates and set in China:

Andrew, Mrs. John (Sophia) [Lulu]. Not So Black as They Painted Her, and Other Stories. Hong Kong: Brewer, 1895.
The Back Door. Hong Kong: China Mail, 1897. Reprinted in Hong Kong Invaded!: A '97 Nightmare. Ed. Gillian Bickley. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001.
"Betty." Intercepted Letters: A Mild Satire on Hongkong Society. Hong Kong: Kelly and Walsh, 1905.
Bland, John Otway Percy [Tung Chia]. Verse and Worse: Selections from the Writings of Tung Chia (J. O. P. Bland). Shanghai: Oriental Press, 1902. Most of the selections were originally published in the Shanghai periodicals the Rattle or the North China Daily News, or in British newspapers.
Boehm, Lise. See Giles, Elisa.
Bredon, Juliet [Charlotte Lorrimer]. The Call of the East. London: Bird and Gay, 1907.
Brady, S. E. (Sarah Edith). The Jewel in the Lotus and Other Stories. Shanghai: Oriental Press, 1905.
Cole, Donna Rita [D. R. C.]. Lui Sing and Other Stories. Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, 1907. The second edition, published in 1908, omits one story.
---. The Flight of an Arrow and Other Stories. Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, 1908. 
---. Poppy Petals. Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, 1910.
Croskey, Julian [Mrs. Charles Mason?]. "The S. G.": A Romance of Peking. Brooklyn: Mason, 1900. 
---. Max. London: Lane, 1897.
Dalziel, James. Chronicles of a Crown Colony. Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Office, 1907. ---. In the First Watch, and Other Engine-Room Stories. London: Unwin, 1907. 
---. High Life in the Far East: Short Stories. London: Unwin, 1909.
Dawe, William Carlton. Kakemono: Tales of the Far East. London: Lane, 1897. 
---. The Mandarin. London: Hutchinson, 1899. 
---. The Plotters of Peking. London: Nash, 1907. 
---. Yellow and White. London: Lane, 1895.
Denby, Jay. Letters of a Shanghai Griffin to His Father, and Other Exaggerations. Shanghai: China Printing, 1910. A slightly modified version was published as Letters from China and Some Eastern Sketches (London: Murray, 1911). This modified version was later published by Kelly and Walsh as Letters of a Shanghai Griffin (Shanghai, 1923).
D'Oliver, Leonard [Dolly]. China Coasters. Hong Kong: Kelly and Walsh, 1903. 
---. Paul the Pretender: A Romance of Hongkong. Shanghai: Shanghai Times, 1912. 
---. Tales of Hongkong in Verse and Story. Hong Kong: Kelly and Walsh, 1902. 
---. The Vampire Nemesis, and Other Weird Stories of the China Coast. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1905.
Dolly. See D'Oliver, Leonard. 
D.R. C. See Cole, Donna Rita.
Giles, Elise Edersheim [Lise Boehm.]. "The Acting Third Assistant: A Tale of the Tientsin Massacre." China Coast Tales. No. 9. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1905. 
---. "Coming Home" and "Peter Wong." China Coast Tales. Nos. 5 and 6. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1899. "Peter Wong" was originally published in weekly installments as "Peter Wong's Revenge," North China Daily Press [New] and North China Herald, 24 July-4 Sept. 1891. (Dates are for its publication in the North China Herald; the dates for the North China Daily News are a few days previous.) 
---. "Dobson's Daughter" and "Of the Noble Army." China Coast Tales. Nos. 1 and 2. 1892. 2nd ed. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1898. 
---. "Formosa: A Tale of the French Blockade of 1884-1885." 1890. China Coast Tales. No. 10. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1905. Originally published in weekly installments, North China Daily Press [News] and North China Herald, 4 July-31 Oct. 1890. (Dates are for its publication in the North China Herald; the dates for the North China Daily News are a few days previous.) 
---. "His First Review." Belgravia Dec. 1887: 188-201. 
---. "In the Sixties" and "Playing Providence." China Coast Tales. Nos. 3 and 4. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1897. 
---. '"Mr. Wrong': A China Coast Tale." Temple Bar July 1896: 447-64. 
---. "Two Women" and "A-Kuei." China Coast Tales. Nos. 7 and 8. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1903.
---. "Up the Yangtsze." Belgravia Mar. 1895: 272-88. 
---. "An Unpaid Governess." Temple Bar Sept. 1895: 116-44. 
Halcombe, Charles J. H. Called Out; or, The Chung Wang's Daughter: An Anglo-Chinese Romance. Hong Kong: Hongkong Daily Press Office, 1894. 
---. Children of Far Cathay: A Social and Political Novel. Hong Kong: Hongkong Daily Press Office, 1906. Originally published in weekly installments, Hong Kong Daily News, 13 May-23 Dec. 1905.
Johnson, Mrs. R. F. [Giles Wheatley]. A Soldier's Love Story: A Romance of Hongkong. Hong Kong: W. Brewer, 1902. 
King, Veronica, and Paul King [William A. Rivers]. Anglo-Chinese Sketches. London: Menheneott, 1903. Also Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1909. 
---. The Chartered Junk: A Tale of the Yangtsze Valley. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1910. 
---. Eurasia: A Tale of Shanghai Life. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1908. 
---. The Commissioner's Dilemma: An International Tale of the China of Yesterday. London: Heath Cranton, 1929. 
Kingsmill, Thomas. Blanchflower: A Romance from Far Cathay. [Shanghai?]: n.p., [c. 1896.] 
Little, Mrs. Archibald [Alicia Bewicke]. A Marriage in China. London: White, 1896. 
---. A Millionaire's Courtship. London: Unwin, 1906. 
---. Out in China! London: Treherne, 1902. 
Lorrimer, Charlotte. See Juliet Bredon.
Lulu. See Andrew, Mrs. John. 
M---, Mr. See Mason, Charles Welsh. 
Mason, Charles Welsh [Mr. M-]. The Chest of Opium. London: Neville Beeman, 1896. 
---. The Shen's Pigtail and Other Cues of Anglo-China Life. London: Unwin, 1894. 
McCarthy, A. A. Fragments from the Far East. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1902. Many of the stories were originally published in the Shanghai periodical Sport and Gossip. 
McCormick, Elsie. The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby. Shanghai: Chinese American Publishing, 1923?. 
Oliver, Dolly. See D'Oliver, Leonard. 
Ready, Oliver G. Ch'un-Kwang: A Tale of Chinese Love and Tragedy. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. 
Rees, Claude. Chun Ti-Kung: His Life and Adventures. London: Heinemann, 1896. 
Rivers, William A. See King, Veronica and Paul King. 
Shanghai Short Story Club. Between Tides and Other Stories. Shanghai: Willow Pattern, 1934. 
---. Shanghai Stories. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1927. 
---. Short Stories. Shanghai: Oriental Press, 1924. 
Simpson, Bertram Lennox [Putnam Weale]. The Altar Fire: Or, The Story of the Chinese Revolution. London: Methuen, 1917. 
---. China's Crucifixion. New York: Macmillan, 1928. 
---. The Eternal Priestess: A Novel of China Manners. London: Methuen, 1914.
---. The Forbidden Boundary, and Other Stories. London: Macmillan, 1908.
---. Her Closed Hands. London: Macmillan, 1927.
---. The Human Cobweb: A Romance of Old Peking. London: Macmillan, 1910.
---. The Port of Fragrance. London: Douglas, 1930.
---. The Revolt. London: Methuen, 1912.
---. The Romance of a Few Days. London: Methuen, 1913.
---. The Silver Sutra: The Story of a Curse. London: Heinemann, 1934.
---. The Unknown God. London: Macmillan, 1911.
---. Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy. London: Collins, 1920.
Weale, Putnam. See Simpson, Bertram Lenox.
Wheatley, Giles. See Johnson, Mrs. R. F.
Wingfield, Lewis. The Lovely Wang: A Bit of China. Bristol: Arrowsmith, 1887.

Sources: Steven Ralph Hardy's Expatriate Writers, Expatriate Readers: English-language Fiction Published along the China Coast in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2003), pp. 338-43.