Table of Contents:
- The past and future of nationalism in China / Joseph R. Levenson
- From The significance of the Ch'ing Period in Chinese history / Ping-ti Ho
- From The persistence of tradition in Chinese foreign policy / Mark Mancall
- Regionalism in nineteenth-century China / Franz Michael
- The province, the nation, and the world : the problem of Chinese identity / Joseph R. Levenson
- From The lore of the Chinese lute : an essay in Ch'in ideology / Robert H. van Gulik
- From Fantastics and eccentrics in Chinese painting / James Cahill
- From A rejected portrait by Lo P'ing : pictorial footnote to Waley's Yüan Mei / James Cahill
- From The life and thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (1738-1801) / David Shepherd Nivison.
- From The Chinese gentry : studies on their role in nineteenth-century Chinese society / Chung-li Chang
- From revolution to restoration : the transformation of Kuomintang ideology / Mary C. Wright
- From Strangers at the gate : social disorder in South China, 1839-1861 / Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
- The rise of land tax and the fall of dynasties in Chinese history / Wang Yü-ch'üan
- The opening of China / Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
- Economic change in early modern China : an analytic framework / John K. Fairbank, Alexander Eckstein, and L.S. Yang
- From Egalitarian and Utopian traditions in the East / Jean Chesneaux
- Modern China in transition, 1900-1950 / Mary C. Wright
- From Ideology and organization in Communist China / Franz Schurmann
- From Confucian China and its modern fate : a trilogy ; Marxism and the middle kingdom / Joseph R. Levenson.