Historiography

Port Cities and Historiography

  1. 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.
  2. Broeze, Frank. Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th-20th centuries, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
  3. Broeze, Frank. Gateways of Asia: Port Cities of Asia in the 13th-20th centuries, London and New York: Keegan Paul international, 1997.
  4. 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.
  5. Graf, Arnt and Chua Beng Huat, Port Cities in Asia and Europe, New York: Routledge, 2009.
  6. Hein, Carola. Port Cities: Dynamic landscapes and global networks, London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2011.
  7. Kein, Bernhard and Gesa Mackentheun. Sea changes: Historicizing the Ocean, New York: Routledge, 2004.
  8. 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.
  9. 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

  1. Arasaratnam, Ceylon and the Dutch, 1600-1800: External Influences and Internal Change in Early Modern Sri Lanka, Variorum, 1996.
  2. 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.
  3. Perera, Nihal. Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism and Postcolonial identity in Sri Lanka, Colorado, Westview Press, 1998.
  4. Perera, Nihal. “Indigenising the Colonial City: Late 19th-century Colombo and its Landscape”, Urban Studies,Vol.39, No.9, 2002:1703-1721.
  5. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Wood, Frances. No dogs and not many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843-1943, London: John Murray, 1998

Hong Kong

  1. Carroll, John M. Edge of Empires: Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
  2. 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.
  3. Law, Wing Sang. Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
  4. 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

  1. Cremer, R.D. Macau, City of commerce and culture: continuity and Change, Hong Kong: API Press, 1991.
  2. Porter, Jonathan. Macau the Imaginary City: Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present, Westview Press, 2000.
  3. Yee, Herbert. “The Eurasians (Macanese) in Macau: The Neglected Minority”, Issues & Studies, 33, No.6, June 1997, pp 113-132

Bangkok (Ayutthaya)

  1. Baker, Chris. “Ayutthaya Rising: From Land or Sea?”, Journal of Southeast Asian studies, Vol 34, No.1, Feb 2003: 41-62
  2. Evans, Hans-Dieter.“Trade and State Formation: Siam in the early Bangkok Period”, Modern Asian Studies, Vol.21, No.4 (1987): 751-771
  3. Falkus, Michael. “Bangkok: From Primate City to Primate Megalopolis”, In Megalopolis: The Giant City in History, New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993.
  4. 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.