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Marlow, Eugene. Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2018.
Montgomery, Laszlo. “The Seven Great Singing Stars of Shanghai (Part 2).” The China History Podcast, August 2019. Podcast, Length in 28:30. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ieCUeLy9UPymjcnLcKDqV?si=2114ae6058724b93
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Yamaguchi, Yoshiko and Fujiwara Sakuya. Fragant Orchid: The Story of My Early Life. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015.
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Ma, Jean. Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
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Fu, Poshek. “Resistance in Collaboration: Chinese Cinema in Occupied Shanghai, 1941–1945.” In Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932–1945: The Limits of Accommodation edited by David P. Barrett and Larry N. Shuyu, 180–200. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
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Hong, Sandra. “The Songbirds of China.” Glass Magazine, June 7, 2013. https://theglassmagazine.com/yao-lee-poon-sow-keng-interview/