Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction, by James T. C. Liu and Wei-ming Tu.--Integrative factors through Chinese history: their interaction, by James T. C. Liu.--General characteristics of Chinese geography, by J. E. Spencer.--Economic and social changes in Tang and Sung China, by D. C. Twitchett.--The city in traditional Chinese civilization, by F. W. Mote.--The issue of capitalism in China, by E. Balazs.--Social mobility in China since the fourteenth century, by Ping-ti Ho.--The art of government in China, by E. A. Kracke, Jr.--Local government in China before modernization, by T'ung-tsu Ch'ü.--Peasant rebellions in China, by Yu-kung Kao.--Basic concepts of Chinese law, by D. Bodde and C. Morris.--Transcendence in traditional China, by H. Smith.--The evolution of the fundamental concept in Confucianism, by Wing-tsit Chan.--Spiritual values in Confucian philosophy, by T'ang Chün-i.--The meaning of Tao, by Chung-yuan Chang.--The Buddhist contributions to Neo-Confucianism and Taoism, by Kenneth Ch'en.--Religions in thirteenth-century China, by J. Gernet.