| Classicism, Politics, and Kinship |
| Acknowledgments |
| Explanatory Notes |
| Introduction |
 | One Schools of Scholarship and Corporate Lineages in the Yangtze Delta during the Late Empire |
| Two The Chuang and Liu Lineages in Ch'ang-chou |
| Three Statecraft and the Origins of the Ch'ang-chou New Text School |
| Four Recasting the Classical Tradition |
| Five Chuang Ts'un-yü and Kung-yang Confucianism |
| Six From Chuang Shu-tsu to Sung Hsiang-feng |
 | Seven Liu Feng-lu and New Text Confucianism |
| • | Liu Feng-Lu as an Official |
| Liu Feng-Lu and Han Learning |
| Liu Feng-Lu and New Text Studies |
| Liu Feng-Lu on the Analects |
| Liu Feng-LU on the Tso Chuan |
| • | Liu Feng-Lu on Ho Hsiu |
| Eight Legalism and New Text Confucianism |
| Nine Politics, Language, and the New Text Legacy |
| Afterword |
| Appendix One Ch'ang-chou Administrative History |
| Appendix Two The Four Branches of the Chuang Lineage in Ch'ang-chou, circa 1400-1830 |
| Appendix Three The Three Branches of the Liu Lineage in Ch'ang-chou, circa 1450-1850 |
| Glossary |
| Bibliography |
| Index |