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Welcome to the SMPA wiki. The purpose of this wiki is to help compile information about files within the Shanghai Municipal Police archive microfilm rolls related to the International Settlement in Shanghai.

To read more about this collection, see this guide and index produced by the US National Archives:
Records Of The Shanghai Municipal Police 1894-1949

Reference Info:

Rolls and Files on Internet Archive

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

File Lists

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.

File Group Rolls Description Files Status
D Files Rolls 1-60 Reports of Special Branch between 1929-1949 2,747 List complete, links not started
IO Files Rolls 63-67 Reports made 1916-1929 595 List complete, links not started
N Files Rolls 60-62 Reports made 1943-1945 during the Japanese Occupation 269 List and links complete, 16 files not found.
U Files Rolls 62-63 Reports made 1940-1945 during the Japanese Occupation 73 (75) List and links complete, 4 files not found.

Other file groups:

File Group Rolls Description Files Status
CS Files Roll 63? 67? Crime and Special Branch 25 List and links complete
W Files Roll 63, 67 Station W (Western area) files 2 List and links complete
FMP Files French Municipal Files 14List complete, links not available
BW Files Roll 63 Bubbling Well Station Reports 1List and links complete
SMP File 1List complete, link not available
F Files French Political Police 11 List complete, links not available
FC Files Film Censorship 1List complete, link not available
H Files Roll 63 Headquarters Staff 3 List and links complete, 2 links not found
CID Files Roll 67 Criminal Intelligence Division 1 List and links complete
MIS Files Roll 67 23 List complete, links not available

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.

start.txt · Last modified: 2024.03.13 15:13 by musasabi