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J.W. MacLellan (1889), Story of Shanghai, from the Opening of the Port to Foreign Trade, North-China Herald Office, OCLC16835850, OL23452930M
Published in the 20th century
A.M. Murray (1907), "Shanghai and the 'Yellow Peril'", Imperial outposts from a strategical and commercial aspect, London: John Murray
Arnold Wright, ed. (1908), "Shanghai", Twentieth century impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other treaty ports of China, London: Lloyd's Greater Britain Pub. Co.
Carlos Augusto Montalto de Jesus (1909), Historic Shanghai, Shanghai: Shanghai Mercury, OCLC5339784, OL7016345M
All About Shanghai. Shanghai: University Press. 1934.
Rhoads Murphey (1953), Shanghai: Key to Modern China, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, OCLC16740238
Rhoads Murphey (1988). "Shanghai". In Mattei Dogan and John D. Kasarda (ed.). The Metropolis Era. Mega-Cities. Sage. ISBN0803937903.
Robert Eng (1989), "Transformation of a Semi-Colonial Port City: Shanghai, 1843-1941", in Frank Broeze (ed.), Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th-20th Centuries, Univ of Hawaii Press, ISBN9780824812669
Françoise Kreissler (1989). "La presse des refugies allemands a Shanghai". L'action culturelle allemande en Chine de la fin du 19e siècle à la Seconde Guerre mondiale (in French). Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris.
Tan Chenchang (1994), "Shanghai shi yanjiu sishinian (1949-1989)" [Forty years of historical research on Shanghai (1949-1989)], Jindai Shanghai tansuo lu (A record of explorations of modern Shanghai) (in Chinese), Shanghai
Takahashi Kosuke and Furuye Tadao, ed. (1995). Shanhai shi (in Japanese). Tokyo. ISBN4497954471.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Shanghai". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. ISBN9781884964046.
Christian Henriot and Zheng Zu'an (1999). Altas de Shanghai: Espaces et representations de 1849 a nos jours (in French). Paris.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Yingjin Zhang (1999). Cinema & Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943. Stanford University Press.
David Fraser, “Inventing Oasis: Luxury Housing Advertisements and Reconfiguring Domestic Space in Shanghai,” chapter 2 in The Consumer Revolution in Urban China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) 25-53.
"Shanghai". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
Yin Xu; Xiaoqun Xu (2003). "Becoming Professional: Chinese Accountants in early 20th Century Shanghai". Accounting Historians Journal. 30.
Xiaoqing Ye (2003), The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884-1898, Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, ISBN9780892641628
Weiping Wu and Shahid Yusuf (2004). "Shanghai". In Josef Gugler (ed.). World Cities beyond the West: Globalization, Development, and Inequality. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0521830036.
Piper Gaubatz, “Globalization and the Development of New Central Business Districts in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou,” chapter 6 in Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space (New York: Routledge, 2005) 98-121.
Wing Chung Ho (2006). "From Resistance to Collective Action in a Shanghai Socialist "Model Community": From the Late 1940s to Early 1970s". Journal of Social History. 40.
Stephanie Po-Yin Chung (2007). "Moguls of the Chinese Cinema: The Story of the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1924-2002". Modern Asian Studies. 41 (4): 665–682. doi:10.1017/s0026749x06002423. S2CID145666838.
Alexander Townsend Des Forges (2007). Mediasphere ShangHai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production. University of Hawaii Press.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (2007). "Is Global Shanghai "Good to Think"? Thoughts on Comparative History and Post-Socialist Cities". Journal of World History.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (2008), Global Shanghai, 1850 - 2010, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, ISBN9780415213271
Jane Zheng (2009). "Private Tutorial Art Schools in the Shanghai Market Economy: The Shanghai Art School, 1913-1919". Modern China. 35.
2010s
Shanghai, San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, Shanghai Museum, 2010, OL24338798M
