1. Preface: The Problems and the Dangers
2. A Formative Period in Chinese Historiography
3. The Deep Roots of Chinese Marxism
4. The Foundations of Chinese History
5. The Progress of Thought, in China and Abroad
6. The First Dynasties
7. The Age of Confucius and the Classics
8. The First Unification of China: Its Political and Social Background
9. The Great Han Empire
10. China and Asia in the Middle Ages
11. The Meaning of 'Middle Ages'
12. From Han to T'ang: Chinese Society in the Third to the Sixth Centuries
13. Northern and Southern Dynasties
14. Basis Problems of T'ang Society
15. The Great T'ang Empire
16. The Five Dynasties and the Rise of Sung
17. Traitors and Aliens: The Fall of the Sung and the Mongol Occupation
18. Antecedents of the Modern Period
19. The Manchus and the Moderns