Introduction: problems of method and of content / John K. Fairbank -- The intellectual history of China: preliminary reflections / Benjamin Schwartz -- The political function of astronomy and astronomers in Han China / Wolfram Eberhard -- The formation of Sui ideology, 581-604 / Arthur F. Wright -- An early Sung reformer: Fan Chung-yen / James T.C. Liu -- The Tung-lin movement of the late Ming period / Charles O. Hucker -- Chinese despotism and the Confucian ideal: a seventeenth-century view / W.T. de Bary -- Synarchy under the treaties / John K. Fairbank -- Chinese class structure and its ideology / Tʻung-tsu Chʻü -- Region, family, and individual in the Chinese examination system / E.A. Kracke, Jr. -- The functional relationship between Confucian thought and Chinese religion / C.K. Yang -- The concept of "pao" as a basis for social relations in China / Lien-sheng Yang -- The scholar's frustration: notes on a type of "fu" / Hellmut Wilhelm -- The amateur ideal in Ming and early Chʻing society: evidence from painting / Joseph R. Levenson.

Available online at Hathi Trust Digital Library.

***Graphic resource: Interesting little volume with simple black-and-white illustrations concerning the clothing, tools, furnishings, weapons, and other implements in historical context.

Compiled under imperial order by Zhai Shan 翟善 (Hongwu period) from Taixing 泰興, Jiangxi. "Statutes for the organization of the central government divided into the Six Ministries, the Censorate, the Office of Transmission 通政司, the Grand Court of Revision 大理寺, and the Five Chief Military Commissions 五軍都省府. This work was later superceded by the publication of the Da Ming huidian 大明會典 but it is the principle source for the government structure in the early Ming period after the abolition of the Central Secretariat 中書省 in 1380. Contained in Huang Ming zhishu 皇明制書 ..."
References: Franke, W. An introduction to the sources of Ming history, p. 178 (6.1.1).