Port Cities and Historiography
- Basu, Dilip K. The Rise and Growth of the colonial Port cities in Asia, Monograph Series No.25, University of Califronia, Berkeley, 24 Feb 1986.
- Broeze, Frank. Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
- Broeze, Frank. Gateways of Asia: Port Cities of Asia in the 13th-20th centuries, London and New York: Keegan Paul international, 1997.
- Fawaz, Leila Tarazi and CA Bayly, Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, with the collaboration of Robert Ilbert, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
- Graf, Arnt and Chua Beng Huat, Port Cities in Asia and Europe, New York: Routledge, 2009.
- Hein, Carola. Port Cities: Dynamic landscapes and global networks, London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2011.
- Kein, Bernhard and Gesa Mackentheun. Sea changes: Historicizing the Ocean, New York: Routledge, 2004.
- Rediker, Marcus “Toward a people’s history of the sea”, In Maritime Empires: British Imperial Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth Century, Edited by David Killingray, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby,London: Boydell Press, 2004.
- Willis, J.E.Junior. “Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination”, The American historical review, vol.98, no.1,1993: 83-105.
Colombo
- Arasaratnam, Ceylon and the Dutch, 1600-1800: External Influences and Internal Change in Early Modern Sri Lanka, Variorum, 1996.
- Dharmasena, K. “Colombo: gateway and oceanic hub of shipping”, In Brides of the Sea: Asia’s port cities, edited by Frank Broeze, Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
- Perera, Nihal. Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism and Postcolonial identity in Sri Lanka, Colorado, Westview Press, 1998.
- Perera, Nihal. “Indigenising the Colonial City: Late 19th-century Colombo and its Landscape”, Urban Studies,Vol.39, No.9, 2002:1703-1721.
- Perera, Nihal. “The planners’ city: the construction of a town planning perception of Colombo”, Environment and Planning, vol. 40 no. 1 (2006): 57-73.
Shanghai
- Clifford, Nicholas R. “A Revolution is not a tea party: The “Shanghai Minds(s)” Reconsidered”, Pacific Historic Review, Vol.59, No.4 (November 1990): 501-529.
- Eng, Robert Y. “The Transformation of a semi-colonial port city: Shanghai, 1843-1941”, edited by Frank Broeze, Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
- Henriot, Christian. “The Shanghai Bund in myth and history: an essay through textual and visual sources”, Journal of Modern Chinese History, Vol.4, No.1(2010) 1-27.
- Taylor, J.E.“The Bund: Littoral space of empire in the treaty ports of East Asia”, Social History, Vol.27, No.2, 2002:125-142.
- Wood, Frances. No dogs and not many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843-1943, London: John Murray, 1998
Hong Kong
- Carroll, John M. Edge of Empires: Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
- Carroll, John M. “The Peak: Residential segregation in colonial Hong Kong”, In Twentieth Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the everyday and the world, Edited by Bryna Goodman and David S Goodman, London and New York: Routledge, 2012.
- Law, Wing Sang. Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
- Yiu, Marisa. “Hong Kong’s global image campaign: Port city transformation from British colony to Special Administrative Region of China”, In Port Cities: Dynamic landscapes and global networks, edited by Carola Hein, Routledge: New York, 2011.
Macau
- Cremer, R.D. Macau, City of commerce and culture: continuity and Change, Hong Kong: API Press, 1991.
- Porter, Jonathan. Macau the Imaginary City: Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present, Westview Press, 2000.
- Yee, Herbert. “The Eurasians (Macanese) in Macau: The Neglected Minority”, Issues & Studies, 33, No.6, June 1997, pp 113-132
Bangkok (Ayutthaya)
- Baker, Chris. “Ayutthaya Rising: From Land or Sea?”, Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Vol 34, No.1, Feb 2003: 41-62
- Evans, Hans-Dieter.“Trade and State Formation: Siam in the early Bangkok Period”, Modern Asian Studies, Vol.21, No.4 (1987): 751-771
- Falkus, Michael. “Bangkok: From Primate City to Primate Megalopolis”, In Megalopolis: The Giant City in History, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993.
- Falkus, Michael. “Bangkok in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Dynamics and limits of port primary”, In Gateways of Asia: Port Cities of Asia from the 13th-20th centuries, London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 1997.