Politics of the inner court under the Hou-chu (last lord) of the Northern Chì (ca.565-73) / Jennifer Holmgren -- The role of the military in the western Wei/northern Chou state / Albert E. Dien -- Time, space and structure in the consolidation of the Tàng dynasty (A.D 617-700) / Robert M. Somers
Sale of office or "fines" in the later Han : a matter of interpretation / Carl Leban -- Toward a better understanding of the later Han upper class / Patricia Ebrey -- The evolution in the nature of the Medieval Genteel families / Mao Han-kuang -- Clients and bound retainers in the six dynasties period / Tang Changru -- Reinventing China : pseudobureaucracy in the early southern dynasties / Dennis Grafflin -- Northern émigrés and the problems of census registration under the eastern Jin and southern dynasties / William G. Crowell -- Intermarriage as a gauge of family status in the southern dynasties / Richard B. Mather -- Society and the sacred in the secular city : Temple legends of the Lo-yang Chìeh-lan-chi / Whalen Lai
