Shanghai Municipal Police Archive Wiki

These are mirrors of the rolls as they are found in the Bibliotèque Numérique Asiatique collection. Read more about their digitization efforts in this post by Christian Henriot here.

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A list of all available individual files, which are often clearer to read but sometimes is missing files, have been extracted from the rolls and are available on the Internet Archive with this link:

Shanghai Municipal Police Archive Individual Files

Below are pages which list files from the NARA index for the collection. The workflow is as follows:

1. With use of GPT4 as an assistant and OCR vehicle, pages from the index PDF are converted to tables for inclusion in the pages below.
2. When these are complete, each page will be proofread to look for problems with the OCR (or other LLM hallucinations)
3. Links will be added to copies of the files on the Internet Archive, either separate files there or the appropriate page in the microfilm rolls when these can be located.
4. Tags that add more clues as to topics that are covered in the document can be added to a tags cell.
5. Notes on files, which may be a summary of what they contain, or a list of various attachments that the files include can be added to a notes box.
6. The total pages in the file can be listed for cases of longer files that are more than a few pages.
7. Files of interest can have the name of the file link to a separate page on this wiki for the file where we can add more details as needed.
8. When most of the files have been listed and linked up, a full spreadsheet of the collection, in various formats, will be available for download from this homepage.

The majority of the files are found in these four groups of documents, with the vast majority of them D Files.

Other file groups:

This wiki is managed by Konrad Lawson. Students in the University of St Andrews honours module MO4971 From City to Home: Spatial Histories of Modern East and Southeast Asia have contributed to information about individual files over the years. If you would like to contribute, please reach out to me: kml at muninn.net.