Book review: Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern CapitalStavrosMatthew, Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital, University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu, 2014; 256 pp.: 978 0 8248 3879 9, US$47.00 (hbk).
Book review: Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformation in a Global MegacityShanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformation in a Global MegacityChenXiangming2009Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press312 pp. US$75.00 hardback; US$25.00 paperback ISBN 978 0 8166 5487 1 hardback; 978 0 8166 5488 8 paperback.