Introduction: The evolution of local control in late imperial China / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Hierarchies and networks: a comparison of Chinese and Islamic societies / Ira M. Lapidus -- Localism and loyalism during the Ch’ing conquest of Kiangnan: the tragedy of Chiang-yin / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- Fiscal reform and local control: the gentry-bureaucratic alliance survives the conquest / Jerry Dennerline -- Local control of convicted thieves in eighteenth-century China / Fu-mei Chang Chen -- Opium smoking in Ch’ing China / Jonathan Spence -- Some preliminary statistical patterns of mass actions in nineteenth-century China / C.K. Yang -- Gentry hegemony: Soochow in the Tʼung-chih restoration / James Polachek -- Local self-government under the republic: problems of control, autonomy, and mobilization / Philip A. Kuhn.

Essays in Chinese or English include (partial list):
Tianzhujiao shilin zhexue zhu Rujia zhexue xiandaihua 天主教士林哲學助儒家哲學現代化 / Luo Guang 羅光 -- Xixue de chuanbo yu Zhongguo de zaoqi jindaihua 西學的傳播與中國的早期近代化 / Shen Dingping 沈定平 -- Zai Hua Tianzhujiao de daxue jiaoyu ji yingxiang 在華天主教的大學教育及影響 / Zhang Fengzhen 張奉箴 -- Tianzhujiao dongchuan yu Shanghai Xujiahui diqu 天主教東傳與上海徐家匯地區 / Gu Weimin 顧衛民 --Ai Rulüe zai Quanzhou de jiaoyou yu chuanjiao huodong 艾儒略在泉州的交游與傳教活動 / Lin Jinshui 林金水 -- Language of national power, prosperity and politics in the publications of the early Protestant press in China / Suzanne Wilson-Barnett -- Christian norms and Chinese mores: Catholicism, marriage in eighteenth-century China / Robert Entenmann -- John L. Nevius (1829-1893) and the "modernization of mission methods" 1870-1881: Itinerant evangelist, famine relief leader, and researcher on demonology / Samuel H. Chao -- Beideshi yu Jinling daxue 貝德士與金陵大學 / Zhang Kaiyuan 張開沅 --YWCA-YMCA and China's search for a civil society / Jessie G. Lutz -- Modernization in North Henan, 1890-1925 / Daniel H. Bays -- Xihua dui chuantong wenhua: Chuanjiaoshi yu wenhua qinlüe wenti 西化對傳統文化 : 傳教士與文化侵略問題 / Wu Ziming 吳梓明.

Essays in Chinese or English include (partial list):
Tianzhujiao shilin zhexue zhu Rujia zhexue xiandaihua 天主教士林哲學助儒家哲學現代化 / Luo Guang 羅光 -- Xixue de chuanbo yu Zhongguo de zaoqi jindaihua 西學的傳播與中國的早期近代化 / Shen Dingping 沈定平 -- Zai Hua Tianzhujiao de daxue jiaoyu ji yingxiang 在華天主教的大學教育及影響 / Zhang Fengzhen 張奉箴 -- Tianzhujiao dongchuan yu Shanghai Xujiahui diqu 天主教東傳與上海徐家匯地區 / Gu Weimin 顧衛民 -- Ai Rulüe zai Quanzhou de jiaoyou yu chuanjiao huodong 艾儒略在泉州的交游與傳教活動 / Lin Jinshui 林金水 -- Language of national power, prosperity and politics in the publications of the early Protestant press in China / Suzanne Wilson-Barnett -- Christian norms and Chinese mores: Catholicism, marriage in eighteenth-century China / Robert Entenmann -- John L. Nevius (1829-1893) and the "modernization of mission methods" 1870-1881: Itinerant evangelist, famine relief leader, and researcher on demonology / Samuel H. Chao -- Beideshi yu Jinling daxue 貝德士與金陵大學 / Zhang Kaiyuan 張開沅 -- YWCA-YMCA and China's search for a civil society / Jessie G. Lutz -- Modernization in North Henan, 1890-1925 / Daniel H. Bays -- Xihua dui chuantong wenhua: Chuanjiaoshi yu wenhua qinlüe wenti 西化對傳統文化 : 傳教士與文化侵略問題 / Wu Ziming 吳梓明.