Bibliography

[Updated: 11 March 2024]

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Edge of Empire

• Carroll, John M. China Hands and Old Cantons: Britons and the Middle Kingdom. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
• Cowell, Christopher. Form Follows Fever: Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2024 (ordered).
• Hoe, Susanna., and Derek. Roebuck. The Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1999.
• Hayes, James. South China Village Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Hase, Patrick H. Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China: The Traditional Land Law of Hong Kong’s New Territories, 1750–1950. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013.
• Hase, Patrick H. Settlement, Life, and Politics: Understanding the Traditional New Territories. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2020.
• Meacham, William. The Archaeology of Hong Kong. Rev. ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

Colonialism at Work

• Abe, Kaori. Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong’s Colonial Economy, 1830–1890. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
• Chu, Cecilia L. Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City. New York NY: Routledge, 2022.
• Cowell, Christopher. Form Follows Fever: Malaria and the Construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2024 (ordered).
• England, Vaudine. Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong. New York: Scribner, 2023.
• Holdsworth, May, and Christopher Munn. Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy and Victoria Gaol. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020.
• Kwong Chi Man and Tsoi Yiu Lun. Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970. Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 2014.
• Larkin, Thomas. The China Firm: American Elites and the Making of British Colonial Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024 (ordered).
• Law, Wing Sang. Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
• Munn, Christopher. Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong 1841–1880. Richmond: Curzon, 2001.
• Sinn, Elizabeth. Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003.
• Sinn, Elizabeth. Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013.
• Kwong Chi Man. Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860–1997. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Tsui, Chung Man Carmen. Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842–1981). Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2023.

Currents of Change

• Carroll, John M. Edge of Empires: Chinese Elites and British Colonials in Hong Kong. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.
• Choa, G. H. The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai: A Prominent Figure in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong. 2nd ed. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2000.
• Holdsworth, May. Sir Robert Ho Tung: Public Figure, Private Man. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022 (ordered).
• Mellor, Bernard. Lugard in Hong Kong: Empires, Education and a Governor at Work 1907–1912. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992.
• Pomerantz-Zhang, Linda. Wu Tingfang (1842–1922): Reform and Modernization in Modern Chinese History. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992.
• Smith, Carl T. Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005.
• Tsai, Jung-fang. Hong Kong in Chinese History: Community and Social Unrest in the British Colony, 1842–1913. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Society in Motion

• Chan Lau, Kit-ching. From Nothing to Nothing: The Chinese Communist Movement and Hong Kong, 1921–1936. London: Hurst & Company, 1999.
• Chin, Angelina S. Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.
• Fung, Chi Ming. Reluctant Heroes: Rickshaw Pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874–1954. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005.
• Kong, Vivian. Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Kuo, Huei-Ying. Networks Beyond Empires: Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong Kong-Singapore Corridor, 1914–1941. Leiden, Brill, 2014.
• Lee, Vicky. Being Eurasian: Memories Across Racial Divides. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004.
• Teng, Emma Jinhua. Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842–1943. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2013.

Fallen City

• Banham, Tony. We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong’s Defenders Imprisoned, 1942–45. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
• Chan, Siu-jeung. East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
• Emerson, Geoffrey C. Hong Kong Internment, 1942 to 1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008.
• Greenfield, Nathan M. The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941–45. Toronto: HarperCollins Canada, 2010.
• Kwong Chi Man. Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860–1997. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Kwong Chi Man and Tsoi Yiu Lun. Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970. Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 2014.
• Snow, Philip. The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.

Cold War Harbor

• Chin, Angelina Y. Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
• Chou, Grace Ai-Ling. Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War Chinese Cultural Education at Hong Kong’s New Asia College, 1949–76. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
• Madokoro, Laura. Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016.
• Mark, Chi-Kwan. Hong Kong and the Cold War: Anglo-American Relations 1949–1957. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004.
• Roberts, Priscilla, and John M. Carroll, eds. Hong Kong in the Cold War. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016.
• Smart, Alan. The Shek Kip Mei Myth: Squatters, Fires and Colonial Rule in Hong Kong, 1950–1963. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006.
• Tsang, Steve. Democracy Shelved: Great Britain, China, and Attempts at Constitutional Reform in Hong Kong, 1945–1952. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Wong, Siu-lun. Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Roaring Sixties

• Bickers, Robert A., and Ray Yep, eds. May Days in Hong Kong: Riot and Emergency in 1967. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
• Cheung, Gary Ka-wai. Hong Kong’s Watershed: The 1967 Riots. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009.
• Hampton, Mark. Hong Kong and British Culture, 1945–97. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
• Loh, Christine. Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
• Mok, Florence. Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
• Smart, Alan, and Fung Chi Keung Charles. Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023 (ordered).

A Sense of Place

• Chow, Yiu Fai, and Jeroen de Kloet. Sonic Multiplicities: Hong Kong Pop and Global Circulation of Sound and Image. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 2013.
• Chu, Yiu-Wai. Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s: A Decade of Splendour. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
• Fan, Victor. Extraterritoriality: Locating Hong Kong Cinema and Media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
• Hamilton, Peter. Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
• Ma, Eric Kit-wai. Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Roberts, Priscilla, and Odd Arne Westad, eds. China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Wong, John D. Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2022.

Awaiting China

• Abbas, M. Ackbar. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
• Chu, Cindy Yik-yi. Chinese Communists and Hong Kong Capitalists: 1937–1997. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Mathews, Gordon, Eric Ma, and Tai-lok Lui. Hong Kong, China: Learning to Belong to a Nation. London: Routledge, 2007.
• Ng, Michael. Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842–1997). Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• Salaff, Janet W., Siu-lun Wong, and Arent Greve. Hong Kong Movers and Stayers: Narratives of Family Migration. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
• Sussman, Nan M. Return Migration and Identity: A Global Phenomenon, a Hong Kong Case. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011.
• Tsang, Steve. Hong Kong: An Appointment with China. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1997.

Dreams Deferred

• Chu, Yiu-Wai. Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013.
• Chu, Yiu-Wai. Found In Transition: Hong Kong Studies in the Age of China. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018.
• Ho, Ming-sho. Challenging Beijing’s Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019.
• Hung, Ho-fung. City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• Lee, Ching Kwan. Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• Lim, Louisa. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong. New York: Riverhead, 2022.
• Pang, Laikwan. The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
• Wu, Helena. The Hangover After the Handover: Places, Things, and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.