The well-field system in Shang and Chou / Hsu Chung-shu -- Some agricultural implements of the early Chinese / Hsu Chung-shu -- Feudal society of the Chou Dynasty / Chang Yin-lin -- THe investiture ceremony of Chou / Ch'i Ssu-ho -- The Chinese land system before the Ch'in Dynasty / Wu Ch'i-ch'ang -- Population and geography in the two Han Dynasties / Lao Kan -- Great Families of Eastern Han / Yang Lien-sheng -- Early development of manorial economy in Wei and Tsin / Ho Tzu-ch'uan -- Evolution of the status of "dependents" / Yang Chung-i -- The system of equal land allotments in medieval times / Wan Kuo-ting -- Lower castes in the T'ang Dynasty / Yang Chung-i -- Official salaries as revealed in T'ang poetry / Ch'en Yin-k'o -- The church-state conflict in the T'ang Dynasty / Chia Chung-yao -- Social relief during the Sung Dynasty / Hsu I-t'ang -- Periodic fairs in South China in the Sung Dynasty / Ch'uan Han-sheng -- Government Artisans of the Yuan Dynasty / Chu Ch'ing-yuan -- Local tax collectors in the Ming Dynasty / Liang Fang-chung -- The "ten-parts" tax system of Ming / Liang Fang-chung -- Price control and paper currency in Ming / Li Chien-nung -- The Ming system of merchant colonization / Wang Ch'ung-wu -- Frontier horse markets in the Ming Dynasty / Hou Jen-chih -- Manchu-Chinese social and economic conflicts in early Ch'ing / Ma Feng-ch'en -- A ships voyage from Luzon to China in the eighteenth century / Chao Ch'uan-ch'eng -- The land tax in the Yangtse Provinces before and after the Taiping rebellion / Hsia Nai.

Chapter keywords: growing of grains. wheat, rice;dyes; preparations of food grains; salt; sugar production; ceramics; casting and forging metal; boats and carts; hammer forging; calcination of stones; vegetable oils and fats; paper; metals; weapons; vermilion and ink; yeasts; pearls and gems; glossary; summary of dynasties; 24 solar terms; equivalence of weights and measures in metric units; transmission of techniques from China to the West.