Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern
Part I. Early China. The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg
Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern
The many dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan
Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett
Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks
Part II. Medieval China. The role of the Zhouli in seventh- and eighth-century civil administrative traditions / David McMullen
Wang Anshi and the Zhouli / Peter K. Bol
Tension and balance: changes of constitutional schemes in Southern Song commentaries on the Rituals of Zhou / Jaeyoon Song
Part III. Early modern East Asia. Tokugawa approaches to the Rituals of Zhou: the late Mito School and "feudalism" / Kate Wildman Nakai
Yun Hyu and the search for dominance: a seventeenth-century Korean reading of the Offices of Zhou and the Rituals of Zhou / JaHyun Kim Haboush
The story of a chapter: changing views of the "Artificer's Record" ("Kaogong ji") and the Zhouli / Benjamin A. Elman
Part IV. Modern China. The Zhouli as the late Qing path to the future / Rudolf G. Wagner
Denouement: some conclusions about the Zhouli / Rudolf G. Wagner.