Director's preface / Mimi Gardner Gates
Curator's acknowledgements / Jay Xu
Editor's preface / Robert Bagley
Sichuan before the Warring States period / Jay Xu
Sichuan in the Warring States and Han periods / Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens
Bronze at Sanxingdui / Jay Xu
Jade and stone at Sanxingdui / Jenny F. So
The Chengdu Plain in the early first millennium BC: Zhuwajie / Lothar von Falkenhausen
The archaeology of eastern Sichuan at the end of the Bronze Age (fifth to third century BC) / Alain Thote
Tombs and tomb furnishings of the Eastern Han period (AD 25-220) / Jessica Rawson
The legacies of the Chengdu Plain / Michael Nylan
Chinese character glossary / Jennifer Chen.
