영문목차
Preface=v
Acknowledgments=v
Contents=vii
Boxes=xiv
Tables=xv
Style-Sheet=xvii
INTRODUCTION
A.1. Periodization=1
A.2. Dynasties=3
A.3. Absolute Dates=9
A.4. Long Periods Of Time=10
A.5. Grade-School History=11
A.6. European Chronologies=12
A 7. Dynasties of Japan, Korea & Vietnam=12
1. LANGUAGE
1. History of the Chinese Language=17
1.1. Introduction=17
1.2. Pronunciation, Tones & Rhymes=27
1.3. Dialects=28
1.4. Chinese as a Global Language?=31
2. Script & Calligraphy=32
2.1. Words, Syllables, Characters=32
2.2. Evolution of Script Forms=33
2.3. The Components of a Character=34
2.4. Types of Character=35
2.5. The Number of Characters=36
2.6. Learning the Characters Today=38
2.7. Word Families=40
2.8. Studying Classical & Ancient Scripts=41
2.9. Variant Characters=42
2.10. Calligraphy=47
3. Translation from Chinese=48
3.1. Introduction=48
3.2. Borrowings From Chinese=55
4. Transcription of Chinese=58
4.1. Introduction=58
4.2. Systems Based on Nanjing Mandarin=59
4.3. Systems Based on Beijing Mandarin=59
4.4. Hanyu Pinyin & its Antecedents=60
5. Translation into Chinese=62
5.1. Introduction=62
5.2. Chinese Borrowings=64
5.3. Pidgin English=72
6. Dictionaries=73
6.1. Introduction=73
6.2. Dictionaries of Classical Chinese=77
6.3. Dictionaries of Modern Chinese=85
6.4. Comprehensive Dictionaries=87
6.5. Dialect Dictionaries=92
6.6. Special-Purpose Dictionaries=92
6.7. Dictionaries of Japanese=93
2. PEOPLE
7. Family & Kin=95
7.1. Introduction=95
7.2. Relationship Terminology=100
7.3. Addressing or Referring to Relatives=103
7.4. Fictive Use of Relationship Terms=104
7.5. Relationship Terms : Sources=104
7.6. Non-Kin Terms of Address=105
7.7. Nonverbal Salutations=107
7.8. Family Instructions, Wills, Testaments=110
8. Personal Names=112
8.1. Historical Stages : Overview=113
8.2. Clan, Lineage & Family Names=114
8.3. Given Names=118
8.4. Commoners' Given Names=123
8.5. Selecting a Given Name=128
8.6. Childhood Names=129
8.7. Ranking Names=133
8.8. Courtesy Names=136
8.9. Alternative Names=138
8.10. Nicknames=140
8.11. Office Names & Other Forms of Address=141
8.12. Illegitimate or Adopted Children=141
8.13. Name Taboos=141
8.14. Many People, Few Names=143
8.15. Bibliography=144
8.16. Foreign Names in Chinese=145
8.17. Manchu, Mongol, Tibetan & Türkic Names=145
8.18. Vietnamese, Korean & Japanese Names=146
9. Biography=148
9.1. Commemorative Writings=149
9.2. Official Resumes=150
9.3. Liezhuan 列傳=151
9.4. Chronological Biographies=153
9.5. Biographies in Local Gazetteers=153
9.6. Biographical Collections=154
9.7. Biographical Reference Works=155
9.8. Diaries, Autobiographies & Letters=157
9.9. Biographical Topoi=159
9.10. Stages of Life=160
9.11. Age=160
9.12. Size Matters=170
9.13. Secondary Studies=172
10 Women's Histories=173
10.1. Women's Names=173
10.2. Pre-Qin=175
10.3. Women in Imperial China=176
10.4. Research Guides=179
11. Clothing & Hairstyles=180
11.1. Textiles=180
11.2. Clothing Styles=182
11.3. Hairstyles=185
11.4. References=188
3. GEOGRAPHY & ENVIRONMENT
12. Zhongguo, China & the Chinese People=191
12.1. Zhongguo=191
12.2. China & the Chinese People=193
13. Environmental History=197
13.1. Climate Change=197
13.2. Natural Disasters & Famines=198
13.3. Distribution of Wild Animals=199
13.4. Forests=200
13.5. Loessification & Desertification=200
13.6. Water Control=200
13.7. Land Use & Environmental Impacts=202
13.8. Journals=202
14. Maps, Geographical Studies & Gazetteers=203
14.1. Maps=203
14.2. Geographical Studies=207
14.3. Local Gazetteers=209
14.4. Historical Atlases=213
15. Toponyms=214
15.1. Structure, Types, Euphony, Numbers=214
15.2. Descriptive Toponyms=217
15.3. Possessive Toponyms=219
15.4. Commemorative Toponyms=219
15.5. Commendatory Toponyms=221
15.6. Folk-Etymology Toponyms=225
15.7. Offensive & Taboo Toponyms=228
15.8. Manufactured Toponyms=228
15.9. Alternative Toponyms=229
15.10. Regional Names=230
15.11 Province Names=232
15.12 Short Names for Provinces & Cities=235
15.13 Imperial Mausolea Names=235
15.14 Street Names=236
15.15 Rivers, Lakes, Seas & Oceans=237
15.16 Toponym Difficulties=239
15.17 How to Identify Historical Places=243
15.18 Readings=246
16. Urban History=247
16.1. Capitals=247
16.2. City Construction=248
16.3. City Maps=249
16.4. City Life & Soundscapes=249
16.5. State of the Field=250
4. GOVERNING & EDUCATING
17. Central & Local Government=253
17.1. Central Government=253
17.2. Yamen=258
17.3. The Metropolitan Region=259
17.4. Local & Border Administration=259
17.5. Recruitment, Ranking & Emoluments=265
17.6. Official Titles=266
17.7. The Ups & Downs of an Official Career=267
18. Titles & Names of Rulers=268
18.1. Title in Office=268
18.2. Honorifics=269
18.3. Temple Titles=269
18.4. Royal & Imperial Posthumous Titles=270
18.5. Insulting Titles=271
18.6. Bad Last Rulers=271
18.7. Imperial Name Taboos=272
18.8. Self-Designations of Rulers=275
18.9. Addressing the Ruler=275
18.10. Referring to a Ruler=275
18.11. Era Names=276
18.12. Imperial Family=276
18.13. Tables of Chinese Rulers=277
19. Titles of N ability & Elite Posthumous Titles=277
19.1. Titles of N ability=277
19.2. Elite Posthumous Titles=278
20. Official Communications 280
20.1. Edicts=280
20.2. Hortatory Edicts & Slogans=280
20.3. Memorials=283
20.4. Lateral Communications=284
20.5. Gazettes=284
20.6. Aids for Documentary Chinese=284
21. Census & Taxation 285
21.1. Registers & Policies=285
21.2. Census Terminology=286
21.3. Land Taxation & Services=288
21.4. Demographic Change=289
21.5. Reactions to Population Growth=289
21.6. Population in the Republic=290
21.7. Population in the PRC=290
21.8. Demographic Studies=291
22. Education & Examinations=292
22.1. Old Ways of Learning the Characters=292
22.2. Examinations for Officialdom=299
22.3. Preparations for the Exams=301
22.4. Publishing the Exam Results=301
22.5. How Efficient Were the Examiners?=301
22.6. Sources=302
23. Law=305
23.1. Introduction=305
23.2. Shang-Sui=307
23.3. Law Codes : Tang-Qing=309
23.4. Administrative Laws & Regulations=310
23.5. Punishments=311
23.6. Cases=312
23.7. Customary Law=312
23.8. Guides & Handbooks=313
23.9. Law in Fiction=313
23.10. Law in the Twentieth Century=313
23.11. Journals=314
23.12. Website=314
24. War=314
24.1. Wars, Campaigns, Battles & Sieges=314
24.2. Uprisings & Rebellions=317
24.3. Foreign & Civil Wars : 1840-1949=318
24.4. Strategic Topography=318
24.5. Military Statistics=319
24.6. Rhetoric & Reality=321
24.7. Military Terms=322
24.8. The Art of War=323
24.9. Recruitment & Military Exams=326
24.10. Army Organization=327
24.11. Military Technology to Late Qing=328
24.12. Great Walls=329
24.13. Military Provisions=331
24.14. Sports & Games=331
24.15. Primary Sources on the Military=334
25. Migration & Travel=336
25.1. Internal Migration=336
25.2. Becoming Chinese=337
25.3. External Migration=338
25.4. Travel & Travel Literature=339
25.5. Travel : Titles by Period=341
26. Minorities 341
26.1. Languages=341
26.2. Written Sources : Minority Languages=342
26.3. Ethnoarcheology=344
26.4. Anthropology & Ethnology=344
26.5 Research Tools=344
27. Foreign Relations 345
27.1. The Chinese World Order=345
27.2. Sino-Steppe Relations=347
27.3. Naming the Barbarians=349
27.4. Border Regions & Foreign Peoples=355
27.5. India=358
27.6. The West & Westerners=358
27.7. The Yi Controversy=359
27.8. Foreign Sources on China 362
5. IDEAS, BELIEFS, LITERATURE & FINE ARTS
28. The Confucian Classics=365
28.1. Introduction : Intellectual History=365
28.2. Ethics in the Three-Character Classic=367
28.3. Biographies of Confucius=367
28.4. Formation of the Confucian Canon=368
28.5. Classification of the Classics=371
28.6. Apocryphal Texts=371
28.7. Commenting the Classics=372
28.8. Stone-Carved Classics=373
28.9. Printing the Classics=374
28.10. Translating the Classics=375
28.11. Reference Works=376
29. Religion=378
29.1. Introduction=378
29.2. Common Religion=379
29.3. Daoism=380
29.4. Buddhism=384
29.5. Islam=394
29.6. Zoroastrianism & Manichaeism=395
29.7. Christianity & Judaism=395
30. Literature=401
30.1. Introduction=401
30.2. Poetry=401
30.3. General Anthologies=404
30.4. Collected Works of Individuals=406
30.5. Literary Criticism=407
30.6. Literary Quotations=409
30.7. Guides & Research Tools=409
30.8. Bibliographies of Translations=410
31. Vernacular Literature & Folklore=411
31.1. Vernacular Literature=411
31.2. Folklore=414
32. Fine Arts=415
32.1. Painting, Portraits, Sculpture & Forgery=415
32.2. Seals=421
32.3. Ceramic Inscriptions=422
33. Architecture=422
33.1. Fengshui=422
33.2. Building Construction=423
33.3. Furniture : From Mats to Chairs=425
33.4. Imperial Parks & Villas=426
33.5. Inscribed Landscapes=428
34. Music=430
34.1. Outline=431
34.2. Research Tools=432
6. AGRICULTURE, FOOD & DRINK
35. Agriculture=433
35.1. Agricultural Archeology=433
35.2. Early Almanacs=436
35.3. Agricultural Treatises=436
35.4. Research Tools=438
36. Food & Drink=440
36.1. Ten Keys to Chinese Cuisine=441
36.2. Prehistoric Diet=442
36.3. Zhou to Han=442
36.4. Han=443
36.5. Han to Tang=444
36.6. Song=445
36.7. Ming-Qing=445
36.8. Commoners=447
36.9. Salt=447
36.10. Sugar=449
36.11. Beverages=449
36.12. Tea=450
36.13. Dairy Products=453
36.14. Opium &Tobacco=453
36.15. Regional Cuisines=455
36.16. Restaurants=457
36.17. Methods, Implements & Inventions=458
36.18. Naming Chinese Dishes=462
36.19. Food & the Language of Love=463
36.20. Primary Sources=463
36.21. Modern Research Tools & Studies=464
7. TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
37. The Historical Context=467
37.1. Priorities & Approaches=467
37.2. Science & Society=468
37.3. Tiangong Kaiwu 天工開物=470
37.4. Priority of Invention=471
37.5. Science and Civilisation in China=473
37.6. Research Tools=475
37.7. The Transfer of Modern Science=477
38. Numbers & Statistics=480
38.1. Base 10=481
38.2. The Earliest Numbers=481
38.3. Cardinal Numbers=481
38.4. Ordinal Numbers=482
38.5. Extremely Large Numbers=483
38.6. Extremely Small Numbers=483
38.7. Fractions=484
38.8. Approximate Numbers=484
38.9. Hyperbolic Numbers=484
38.10. Magical & Auspicious Numbers=485
38.11. Numerological Mnemonics=487
38.12. Number Codes & Riddles=488
38.13. Wrong Numbers=488
38.14. Common Causes of Confusion=489
38.15. Misleading Statistics=489
38.16. Sources on Chinese Mathematics=491
39. Astrology, Astronomy & Calendars=492
39.1. Astrology & Astronomy=492
39.2. The Solar Calendar=494
39.3. The Sexagenary Cycle=496
39.4. Months, Xun 旬, Weeks & Days=498
39.5. Calendrical Difficulties=501
39.6. Imperial Almanacs=502
39.7. The Taiping Calendar=505
39.8. Buddhist, Muslim & Other Calendars=505
39.9. Twentieth-Century Calendars=507
39.10. Calendars in Japan, Korea & Vietnam=507
39.11. Recording Years=509
39.12. Dates & Their Conversion=519
39.13. Chronologies & Calendrical Concordances=521
39.14. Events & Event Mnemonics=522
39.15. Festivals & Holidays=524
39.16. Fate Calculation=528
39.17. Primary & Secondary Sources=530
40. Timekeeping=532
40.1. Introduction=532
40.2. Divisions of the Day : Shang & Zhou=533
40.3. The 100-Mark System=533
40.4. The Curfew & the Night Watch=535
40.5. The 12 Double-Hour System=537
40.6. Telling the Time(Han to Qing)=539
40.7. Neighboring Countries=540
40.8. Matching 100-Ke 核 with 12-Chen 辰=540
40.9. Qing Reforms=540
40.10. Republican Time=541
40.11. Time in the Japanese Empire=542
40.12. Time in the People's Republic=542
41. Medicine=543
41.1. Excavated Texts=543
41.2. Transmitted Works=544
41.3. Longevity Techniques=547
41.4. Bibliography=548
41.5. Modern Studies=549
8. TRADE TOPICS
42. Weighing & Measuring=551
42.1. Terminology of Weights & Measures=552
42.2. Pre-Qin Weights & Measures=552
42.3. Han to Early Qing Weights & Measures=554
42.4. Historic Values=556
42.5. Weighing & Measuring Instruments=556
42.6. Cultivated-Land Measures=557
42.7. Special Measures=558
42.8. Treaty-Port Weights & Measures=558
42.9. Weighing & Measuring=559
42.10. Twentieth Century Reforms=562
42.11. Sources, References & Studies=563
43. Money & Prices=564
43.1. Money=564
43.2. Prices=572
44. Notes on Industry & Trade=574
44.1. Industry=574
44.2. Internal Trade=574
44.3. External Overland Trade=577
44.4. Maritime Trade=580
44.5. Official Supervision=584
44.6. Marine Archeology=589
9. HISTORY
45. Modern Histories, Guides & Databases=592
45.1. Modern Histories=592
45.2. Guides & Readers=594
45.3. Databases & Encyclopedias=597
46. Sources, Genres & Historiography=598
46.1. Primary & Secondary Sources=598
46.2. Archives=600
46.3. Published Archival & Other Sources=602
46.4. Private Documents=602
46.5. Main Genres of Historical Writing=603
46.6. Historiography=603
47. Official Records & the History Office=608
47.1. Overview=608
47.2. Court Annalistic Works=610
48. Annals=612
48.1. Chunqiu 春秋 & Zhushu Jinian 竹書紀年=612
48.2. Annals : Han to Tang=614
48.3. Zizhi Tongjian 資治通鑑=615
48.4. Continuations of the Zizhi Tongjian=617
48.5. Gangmuti 綱目體=617
48.6. Continuations of the Gangmu=619
48.7. Simplifications of the Gangmu=620
48.8. Annals Written in the Song & Later=620
49. Standard Histories=620
49.1. Overview=621
49.2. Origins & Later Developments=622
49.3. Table of the Histories=625
49.4. Printed Sets of the Histories=627
49.5. Main Editions of the Histories=629
49.6. Abbreviations & Excerpts=630
49.7. Studies, Supplements & Reference Tools=631
49.8. Treatises=634
49.9. Who Read the Histories?=636
49.10. Evaluation of the Histories=642
49.11. References & Further Readings=644
49.12. The Language of the Histories=644
50. Topically Arranged Histories=644
51. Digests of Government Institutions=645
51.1. Hulyao 會要 & Huidian 會典=645
51.2. Shitong 十通=645
52. Miscellaneous Histories=648
52.1. Introduction=648
52.2. Pre-Qin & Han=649
52.3. End of Han to Tang=649
52.4. Tang-Yuan=649
52.5. Ming-Qing=649
53. Bijl 筆記=650
53.1. Development of the Genre=650
53.2. Biji Databases & Indexes=651
53.3. Biji Fiction=651
54. Popular Perceptions of History=652
54.1. History Dramatized=652
54.2. Informal History=653
10. PRE-QIN
55. Archeology=656
55.1. Chinese Archeology=656
55.2. The Current Archeological Scene=658
55.3. Archeological Science=659
55.4. Research Tools=660
56. Prehistory=662
56.1. Homo Erectus=662
56.2. Neolithic Cultures=662
56.3. Prehistoric Signs & Symbols=665
56.4. Sage Kings & Cultural Heroes=671
56.5. Ancient Chronology=673
56.6. Doubting Antiquity=675
56.7. Recent Chronological Studies=676
56.8. Sources & Studies of Myths=678
57. Xia-Shang 夏商=678
57.1. Xia=678
57.2. Shang=679
57.3. Shang Oracle-Bone Inscriptions=681
57.4. Regional Early Bronze Age Cultures=687
58. Zhou 周=688
58.1. Periodization Terminology Defined=688
58.2. Bronze Inscriptions=689
58.3. Inscriptions on Bone, Jade, Pottery & Stone=692
58.4. Warring States Chujian 楚簡=693
58.5. The Chu Silk Manuscript=695
58.6. Zhou Transmitted Texts=695
58.7. Later Sources on the Pre-Qin=698
58.8. Zhou Archeology=699
58.9. Zhou Research Tools=699
11. QIN-WUDAI
59. Qin-Han 秦漢=703
59.1. Main Sources (1) : Shiji 史記=704
59.2. Main Sources (2) : Hanshu 漢書=711
59.3. Main Sources (3) : Hou-Honshu 後漢書=713
59.4. Other Important Historical Sources=715
59.5. Other Transmitted Sources=715
59.6. Excavated Sources=717
59.7. Archeology & Inscriptions=722
59.8. Xiongnu=726
59.9. Research Tools=727
60. Wei-Jin, Nanbeichao 魏晉南北朝=728
60.1. Main Historical Sources=730
60.2. Other Textual Sources=732
60.3. Documents on Bamboo & Wood=733
60.4. Documents on Paper=734
60.5. Archeology & Inscriptions=734
60.6. Research Tools=734
61. Sui-Tang, Wudai 隋唐五代=736
61.1. Main Historical Sources=736
61.2. Other Textual Sources=738
61.3. Dunhuang & Turfan Documents=742
61.4. Archeology & Inscriptions=747
61.5. Foreign Sources=749
61.6. The Türks=749
61.7. The Early Tibetan Empire=750
61.8. The Uighur Empire=750
61.9. Nanzhao 南詔=751
61.10. Research Tools=751
61.11. Bohai=752
61.12. Wudai Shiguo 五代十國 Primary Sources=752
12. SONG-QING
62. Song 宋=755
62.1. Main Historical Sources=755
62.2. Other Textual Sources=758
62.3. Archeology & Inscriptions=765
62.4. Foreign Sources=766
62.5. Research Tools=766
63. Liao, Jin, Xixia 遼金西夏=768
63.1. Liao : Introduction=769
63.2. Liao : Main Historical Source=769
63.3. Liao : Other Sources=770
63.4. Jin : Introduction=771
63.5. Jin : Main Historical Sources=771
63.6. Jin : Other Sources=772
63.7. Xixia : Introduction=772
63.8. Xixia : Main Sources=773
64. Yuan 元=775
64.1. The Mongols=775
64.2. Main Historical Sources=779
64.3. Other Important Sources=780
64.4. Archeology & Inscriptions=783
64.5. Foreign Sources=784
64.6. Research Tools=786
65. Ming 明=788
65.1. Main Historical Sources=789
65.2. Other Important Sources=792
65.3. Archives=800
65.4. Archeology & Inscriptions=801
65.5. Foreign Sources=803
65.6. Research Tools=804
66. Qing 淸=806
66.1. Introduction=807
66.2. Archives & Records=808
66.3. Main Historical Sources=832
66.4. Other Important Sources=836
66.5. Archeology & Inscriptions=853
66.6. Foreign Sources=855
66.7. Research Tools=859
13. EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
67. The Republic of China 中華民國(1912-1949)=861
67.1. Archives=862
67.2. Books=866
67.3. Newspapers & Periodicals=866
67.4. Economy & Society : Sources & Statistics=870
67.5. Biographical Data & Dictionaries=875
67.6. Creative Literature, 1900-1949=882
67.7. Warfare, 1912-1949=882
67.8. Published GMD Documents=885
67.9. Selection of Published CCP Documents=885
67.10. Twentieth Century Taiwan=886
67.11. Tibet=887
67.12. History of Hong Kong=888
67.13. External Relations=888
67.14. Japanese Sources on China, 1895-1945=888
67.15. Foreign Archival Sources, 1840-1949=891
67.16. Visitors to the Republic, 1912-1949=894
67.17. Historic Sites=895
67.18. Research Tools=895
68. National Studies & National History=898
68.1. Liang Qichao & the New History=899
68.2. Pragmatist Historians=899
68.3. Marxist Histories, 1924-1979=899
68.4. Historical Writing in China, 1980s-=900
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY
69. From Bamboo Slips to Silicon Chips=903
69.1 Bamboo=903
69.2 Silk=908
69.3 Paper=908
69.4 Woodblock Printing=910
69.5 Movable-Type Printing=911
69.6 From Sūtra Binding to Thread-Binding=912
69.7 Terminology of Woodblock Printing=913
69.8 New Printing Techniques=916
69.9 Readings on the History of the Book=917
69.10 Computer-Generated Fonts=918
69.11 Stone Inscriptions=918
70. Aspects of the Book=921
70.1. Rare Books=921
70.2. Recovered Books=921
70.3. Forged Books=922
70.4. Authors & Editors=922
70.5. Textual Criticism=923
70.6. Book Titles=924
70.7. Prefaces & Colophons=927
70.8. Page Layout=927
70.9. Punctuation=927
71. Collecting & Cataloguing=928
71.1. Libraries & Collectors=928
71.2. Library Classification=936
71.3. Library Catalogues=940
72. Szku Quanshu 四庫全書=945
72.1. Terminology of the Siku Quanshu=945
72.2. Editing the Siku Quanshu=945
72.3. Contents of the Seven Siku Exemplars=947
72.4. Banned & Destroyed Books=948
72.5. Evaluating the Siku Quanshu=949
72.6. E-Siku=950
72.7. Siku Quanshu Huiyao 四庫全書薈要=951
72.8. Rare Books from the Siku=951
72.9. The Siku Catalogue=952
72.10. Continuations of the Siku Catalogue=952
72.11. Siku Supplements & Indexes=954
73. Leishu 類書 & Congshu 叢書=955
73.1. Leishu=955
73.2. Congshu=962
74. Indexes & Concordances=965
74.1. Introduction=965
74.2. ICS Indexes=966
74.3. Harvard-Yenching & Other Indexes=967
75. Modern Libraries, Publishers & Bookstores=968
75.1. Modern Library Classification Schemes=968
75.2. China=969
75.3. Taiwan=970
75.4. Japan=971
75.5. The United States, Europe & Russia=973
75.6. Publishers & Bookstores=975
75.7. Locating Books & Abstracts=976
76. Keeping Up To Date=978
76.1. Introduction=978
76.2. Chinese Secondary Sources=979
76.3. Japanese Secondary Sources=983
76.4. Western Secondary Sources=985
List of Publishers=991
Name Index=995
Book Index=1031
Database Index=1101
Subject Index=1103
BOXES
1. The Manner of Speaking=19
2. The Terms Baihua 白話 & Wenyan 文言=20
3. Guanhua 官話 in Popular Literature=25
4. Fangyan 方言 Defined=28
5. The Ideographic Myth=32
6. The Components of Chinese Characters=34
7. The Total Number of Characters in General Use=38
8. Origins of Variant Characters=43
9. Translating Names & Titles in the Shiji 史記=50
10. Transcription or Transliteration?=58
11. Non-Standard Orthographies for Chinese Names=58
12. Terminological Standardization=66
13. The Chinese for "Dictionary"=73
14. Mosaic Dictionaries & Historical Thesauri=76
15. Modern Dictionaries=77
16. The Title of the Shuowen 說文=79
17. The First Bilingual Dictionary of Classical Chinese=84
18. The Printing of Dai Kan-Wa Jiten 大漢和辭典=91
19. Su Shi's 蘇軾 Names=112
20. Zhu Yuanzhang's 朱元璋 Ancestors=127
21. Xiaoming 小名 & Xiaozi 小字 in the Song=131
22. Gong 公 & Zi 子=137
23. Biehao 別號 Paintings=140
24. Duplicate Biographies in the 24 Histories=151
25. Eulogistic Biographies=152
26. Coming of Age=160
27. Age at Death=161
28. Height & Power : Zhang Cang 張蒼 & His Progeny=172
29. The Buddha's Physical Appearance=172
30. Pigtails=187
31. Red Guards & Long Hair=188
32. Generics as Prefixes in Early Toponyms=215
33. From Sandbanks to Continents=216
34. Seven Types of Toponym=216
35. Promoting Cities in the Southern Song=220
36. Improving Beijing Lane & Village Names=229
37. The Nine Regions in the Yugong=230
38. Place-Name Dictionaries Compared=244
39. Left & Right in Official Titles=257
40. Etymology & Layout of Yamen=257
41. Duties of Qing Local Yamen Financial Assistants=263
42. Public Order Below the County=264
43. Struggling to Advance in Officialdom=268
44. Grand Progenitor & Other Temple Titles=270
45. Place of Registration & Occupational Status=287
46. Historic Land Tax & Corvée Systems=288
47. Xiaoxue 小學=293
48. Scribal Literacy in the Han Dynasty=297
49. The Speed of Ancient Armies=319
50. Massacres in Sichuan & Yangzhou=321
51. Marching in Step=326
52. Campaigning Emperors=328
53. The Length of the Long Walls=330
54. The Steppe=348
55. The Story of the Drunken Jie=353
56. Five Sacred Mountains=379
57. Classical Prose Styles=404
58. Wenxuan 文選 Genres=405
59. Intaglio & Relief=421
60. Foot Rule & Fengshui=422
61. Imperial Mausolea=426
62. Over-Writing Inscriptions=429
63. How "Chinese" Were Pre-Tang Chinese Dishes?=442
64. The Five Flavors=442
65. Imported Foods : Han to Tang=444
66. Barbarian Dishes : Han to Tang=444
67. 茶(Cha, Tsai, Te)=453
68. Chinese Morality, Western Utility=477
69. Lucky & Unlucky Numbers=486
70. The Solstices & the Equinoxes=494
71. LI 曆 Defined=502
72. Adjusting the Calendar for Political Reasons=503
73. Words for Year=509
74. Ancient Zodiacs=518
75. Clepsydras East & West=534
76. Divisions of the Night Watch=536
77. For Whom the Bell Tolls=536
78. Qing Clocks=541
79. Classification in the Bencao Gangmu 本草綱目=545
80. Girth Measures=554
81. The Chinese Mile=554
82. Arbitrary Tax Conversion Ratios=560
83. Capacity-Weight Equivalences for Rice=561
84. Boxing the Compass=582
85. Primary Sources Classified by Media=600
86. Books Printed on the Backs of Documents=602
87. Documents Preserved in Compilations=602
88. Official Historical Records=609
89. The Final Year of the Zuozhuan 左傳=613
90. The Title of the Zizhi Tongjian 資治通鑑=616
91. The Term Gangmu 綱目=618
92. The Tongjian Gangmu 通鑑綱目 in Europe=619
93. Mao Zedong, the Zizhi Tongjian & the Histories=629
94. Tomb Robbers=656
95. Peking Man Pioneers=662
96. Sources of Chinese Jade=663
97. Ba-Shu 巴蜀 Scripts=670
98. Claims of Early Origins of Chinese Characters=670
99. The Tomb of Fu Hao 婦好=681
100. The Term Jiaguwen 甲骨文=681
101. Dragon Bones=682
102. Alternative Story of Oracle-Bone Discovery=682
103. The First Empires of India & China=703
104. The Rise & Fall of Qin=703
105. The Style of the Two Tang Histories=737
106. The Buddha's Bone=747
107. Song, Liao, Jin & Xixia Calendrical Discrepancies=768
108. Ancestors of the Xixia Founder=773
109. Felt Tents=776
11O. Naming the Ming Dynasty=789
111. The Year the Qing Dynasty Ended=808
112. Signing & Witnessing Contracts & Treaties=822
113. Zheng Chenggong 鄭成功=825
114. The Qing History Office=832
115. Tomes in Tombs=904
116. Wood as Stationery in Rome & Japan=906
117. Documentation Studies=924
118. The Tianyi ge 天一閣 Library, Ningbo=931
119. The Unreliability of Book Statistics=934
120. Total Number of Characters in the Siku Quanshu=947
121. The Costs of the Siku Quanshu=947
122. The Origins of Hui 汇=964
123. Six Pre-Twentieth Century Chinese Indexes=965
124. Pre-OPAC Catalogues=978
125. Sinology=985
1. Japanese Periodizations of Chinese Histo1y=1
2. The Conventional List of Dynasties (Pre-Qin)=3
3. The Conventional List of Dynasties (Imperial China)=4
4. The Twentieth Century=4
5. Japan : Prehistory & Historical Periods & Eras=13
6. Korea : Main Dynasties & Governments=14
7. Vietnam : Main Dynasties & Governments=15
8. Stages of the Chinese Language=18
9. Main Branches of Sinitic (First Century CE)=29
10. Regional Dialects : Early Twentieth Century=29
11. The Sacred Edict in Different Styles & Dialects=30
12. Main Script Forms=33
13. Modern Typefaces=34
14. Components of Composite Characters=34
15. Xu Shen's 許慎 Six Types of Character=35
16. Three Types of Character=36
17. The Number of Characters=37
18. Characters in Pre-Qin Works=37
19. Characters in Han & Later Works=37
20. Eighty High Frequency Characters=39
21. Easily Confused Characters=40
22. The Rou 柔 Word Family=41
23. Misprints in the Zhonghua Shiji 史記=44
24. Tang Non-Standard Characters=44
25. Chinese Borrowings in English=56
26. Foreign Borrowings in Chinese Categorized=66
27. Yan Fu's 嚴復 Superseded Neologisms=70
28. Examples of Borrowings From Japanese=71
29. Earliest Occurrence of Words=90
30. Typical Contents of Ming-Qing Genealogies=97
31. Chinese Descriptive Relationship Terms=100
32. Nine Generations on the Father's Side=101
33. Chinese Generational & Collateral Indicators=102
34. The Chinese Naming System : Zhou=113
35. The Chinese Naming System : Han to Republic=114
36. The Current Chinese Naming System=114
37. PRC Popular Given Names, 1949-79=123
38. Given Names of Commoners in the Song=126
39. Commoners' Names in the Qing Shilu 淸實錄=128
40. Childhood Names(Xiaoming 小名)=130
41. Xiaoming 小名 & Xiaozi 小名=132
42. Some Typical Courtesy Names=137
43. Ranking Courtesy Names=137
44. The Number of Extant Biographies=149
45. Provincial & City Biographical Dictionaries=155
46. English-Language Biographical Dictionaries=156
47. The Stages of Life=160
48. Seventeen of the Tallest People in the Histories=171
49. Gender Breakdown in the Four Histories=178
50. The Lexical Influence of Textiles=180
51. Province Names=233
52. The Many Names of Beijing=240
53. Local Administrative Units, 221 BC-2001 CE=260
54. Local Administrative Units & Their Heads=261
55. Top Ten Provincial-Level Officials in the Late Qing=261
56. Ranked Two-Character Posthumous Titles=279
57. Posthumous Titles Starting with Wen 文=279
58. The Historical Population of China=289
59. The Qing Examination System=300
60. Punishments & Levels of Decision(Tang-Qing)=312
61. The Size of Steppe Armies=320
62. Influence of Military Vocabulary=322
63. Sino-Tibetan Languages in China=341
64. Indigenous Peoples & Countries in the Histories=356
65. Expurgating Rizhi lu 日知錄=360
66. The Shisanjing 十三經(13 Classics)=370
67. The Classics Branch in the Siku Classification=371
68. Contents of the Taishō Canon=386
69. Lay Believers=389
70. The Literature Branch in the Siku Classification=401
71. Main Genres of Poetry=402
72. Wenxin Diaolong Main Genres=408
73. Song Huizong's Art Collection=416
74. Sanshan Wuyuan 三山五園=427
75. Five-Phases Theory Correspondences=468
76. Chinese Numerals=482
77. Extremely Large Numbers=483
78. Extremely Small Numbers=484
79. Divisions of the Tropical Year : The 24 Solar Terms=495
80. Sexagenary Graphs=496
81. Sexagenary Cycle=496
82. Plant & Seasonal Names for Months(Xia calendar)=499
83. Phases of the Moon=499
84. Days of the Month=501
85. Calendrical Coventions & Common Confusions=501
86. Ways of Writing 2013 in East Asia=507
87. Modern Japanese Era Names=508
88. Counting Years=509
89. Nianhao 年號 Abbreviations=514
90. Jupiter Stations & Counter-Orbital Jupiter=516
91. Stems & Five Colors, Branches & 12 Animals=518
92. Year Dates : Alternative Forms=520
93. Beginnings & Endings of Years=521
94. Festivals & Holidays in Late Imperial China=525
95. Republican Revolutionary Memorial Days=526
96. Divisions of the Day at the End of the Shang=533
97. Chinese Hours in Imperial Times(12 chen 辰)=538
98. The Compass Names for the 24 Hours=539
99. Fractions of an Hour=539
100. Weights & Measures : Pre-Qin=553
101. Main Measures : Han-Qing=554
102. Weights & Measures : Han-Qing=555
103. Historic Values of Official Weights & Measures=556
104. The Mu 畝 : Official Historic Values=557
105. Area Measures Used in Taiwan=558
106. The Value of One Jin 金=568
107. Subdivisions of a Tael=568
108. Subdivisions of a Silver Dollar=569
109. Nautical Units of Measure=584
11O. Archives & Other New Sources=601
111. The History Branch(Shibu 史部) in the Siku=603
112. The Standard Histories=626
113. Works Printed by the Guozi Jian, 988-1086=627
114. Printing of Sets of Standard Histories, Song-Qing=629
115. The Eighteen Histories with Treatises=635
116. Huiyao 會要=645
117. Tongdian 通典 Contents=646
118. Tongzhi, Ershi lüe 通志二十略 Contents=646
119. Wenxian tongkao 文獻通考 Contents=647
120. The Ten Tong 十通=648
121. Synonyms for Biji 筆記=651
122. Historical Novels=653
123. Neolithic(8000-2000 BCE)=663
124. Legendary Rulers & Culture Heroes=671
125. Dates of Xia, Shang & Zhou=676
126. First Months of Early Calendars=700
127. The Five Sections of the Shiji=706
128. Shiji Group Profiles=707
129. The Shiji in English, French & Russian Translation=710
130. Dynastic Names & Dates=729
131. Wuhu Shiliuguo 五胡十六國=729
132. The Five Dynasties=753
133. The Ten Kingdoms(902-79)=753
134. Ming Emperors & Era Names=788
135. Qing Emperors & Era Names=806
136. Book Production to Seventh Century CE=907
137. Book Production(Seventh Century to Present)=909
138. Bibliographic Classification in the Hanzhi 漢志=937
139. Standard History Book Catalogues, Supplements=941
140. Zheng Qiao & Sun Xingyan Book Classifications=943
141. Terminology of the Siku Quanshu 四庫全書=945
142. The Seven Sets of the Siku Quanshu=946
143. Number of Titles in the Siku by Branch=948
144. Citations in the Siku Quanshu=950
145. The Four Branches in the Siku Quanshu=953
146. Heaven, Earth & Man=956
147. Leishu 類書 Classification Systems=956
148. Genres in the Gujin Tushu Jicheng 古今圖書集成=959
149. The Gujin Tushu Jicheng=960