Maps, Tables, and Figures ix
 Introduction: Problematizing the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition 1(34)
 Paul Jakov Smith
 Imagining Pre-modern China 35(36)
 Richard von Glahn
 Impressions of the Song-Yuan-Ming Transition: The Evidence from Biji Memoirs 71(40)
 Paul Jakov Smith
 Did the Mongols Matter? Territory, Power, and the Intelligentsia in China from the Northern Song to the Early Ming 111(24)
 John W. Dardess
 Was There a `Fourteenth-Century Turning Point'? Population, Land, Technology, and Farm Management 135(41)
 Li Bozhong
 Towns and Temples: Urban Growth and Decline in the Yangzi Delta, 1100--1400 176(36)
 Richard von Glahn
 Women and Confucianism from Song to Ming: The Institutionalization of Patrilineality 212(29)
 Bettine Birge
 Neo-Confucianism and Local Society, Twelfth to Sixteenth Century: A Case Study 241(43)
 Peter K. Bol
 Mashaben: Commercial Publishing in Jianyang from the Song to the Ming 284(45)
 Lucille Chia
 Text and Ideology: Ming Editors and Northern Drama 329(45)
 Stephen H. West
 Medical Learning from the Song to the Ming 374(27)
 Angela Ki-che Leung
 Reference Matter
 Notes 401(68)
 Works Cited 469(44)
 Index 513