附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: Recent Historiographical Trends -- Center and Periphery -- Periodization -- The Dynasties -- Basics -- Language -- Dictionaries -- People -- Geography -- Chronology -- Telling the Time -- Statistics -- Guides and Encyclopaedias -- Locating Books -- Locating Secondary Sources -- Libraries -- Pre-Qin Sources -- Archaeology -- Pre-Qin Archaeology -- Prehistoric Signs and Symbols -- Oracle-Bone Inscriptions -- The Characters: Evolution and Structure -- Epigraphy -- From Bamboo Strips to Printed Books -- Excavated and Transmitted Texts.
Historical Genres -- Primary and Secondary Sources -- Annals -- Standard Histories -- Topically Arranged Histories -- Miscellaneous Histories -- Government Institutions -- Official Communications -- Law -- War -- Other Primary Sources -- Myth and Religion -- Literary Anthologies and Collected Works -- Leishu -- Biji -- Philosophical Works -- Popular Literature -- Agriculture, Food, and the Environment -- Medicine -- Technology and Science -- Calligraphy, Painting, and Music -- Women's Studies -- Non-Han Peoples (Inside China) -- Non-Han Peoples (Outside China) -- Foreign Accounts of China V Primary Sources by Period -- Introduction: Guides -- Qin and Han -- Wei, Jin, Nan-Bei Chao -- Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties -- Song -- Liao, Xi Xia, Jin, and Yuan -- Ming -- Qing -- The Republic.
