Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook

The standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses.
Contents:
The Classical period. The metal bound box --
Hexagrams --
Songs and poems --
The battle of Chin and Ch'u --
Confucius --
Chuang Tzu. The Han Dynasty. The debate on salt and iron --
Rules for visiting --
Social relations --
Two women --
The interaction of yin and yang --
Local cults --
Uprisings. The era of division and the T'ang dynasty. Ko Hung's autobiography --
Dedicatory colophons --
A woman's hundred years --
The examination system --
Household registration --
Slaves --
Family division. The Sung and Yuan dynasties. Book of rewards and punishments --
Precepts of the Perfect Truth Taoist sect --
Ancestral rites --
The shrew --
The problems of women --
Rules for the Fan lineage's charitable estate --
The attractions of the capital --
The mutual responsibility system --
On farming --
A schedule for learning --
Kuo Pi's diary. The Ming dynasty. Proclamations of the Hung-wu emperor. Laws against theft and robbery --
Maxims for daily life --
The dragon boat race --
Village ordinances --
Routine commercial procedures --
What the weaver said --
Tenants --
Shi Chin, the nine-dragoned --
Merchants in the Ming --
Family instructions --
The spite of Lotus --
Li Chih's letters. The Ch'ing dynasty. Parables and ghost stories --
Proverbs about heaven --
Almanac --
Taxes and labor service --
Permanent property --
Lan Ting-yüan's casebook --
Exhortations on ceremony and deference --
Village organization --
The village headman and the new teacher --
Boat people --
Infant protection society --
Mid-century rebels --
The conditions and activities of workers --
Marriage contracts --
Genealogy rules --
Families and lineages of Yen-yüan county. The early twentieth century. The movement against footbinding --
The new prefect --
Rural education --
The Shanghai Builders' Guild --
On freeing slave girls --
My old home --
The Hai-feng Peasant Association --
The dog-meat general --
The general strike --
Funeral processions --
My wife and child --
Birth customs --
The life of beggars --
Spring silkworms --
The orange grower and the old sailor. The People's Republic. Land reform --
Hu Feng's letters --
The state budget and the standard of living --
A new young man at the organization department --
Developing agricultural production --
The correct handling of love, marriage, and family problems --
The spring festival --
Lei Feng, Chairman Mao's good fighter --
Housing in Shanghai --
Red Guards --
My accusations --
The nature of diseases --
Modern models for family life and marriage --
Population control and the four modernizations.