Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Chronology (page xiii)
- Table of Equivalents (page xiv)
- one Introduction: The Problem and Its Origins (page 1)
- two Policy Background and Foundations of Trade (page 9)
- three General Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations Under the Tributary System (page 36)
- four Surrendered Barbarians and Their Treatment (page 65)
- Appendix to Chapter Four (page 89)
- five Frontier Trade (page 92)
- six Economic Relations Between China and the Western Countries (page 133)
- seven Overseas Trade (page 172)
- eight Conclusions: Trade and Expansion in Historical Perspective (page 188)
- Abbreviations (page 220)
- Bibliography (page 221)
- Glossary (page 235)
- Index (page 239)