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| Figures and Tables | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| China on the Silver Standard: Influences of the International Monetary System | |
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| Mass Expectations and the Financial Crisis | |
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| Market and State and the Monetary System | |
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| Linkages Between China and the World Economy: The Two Crises and Beyond | |
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| The Organization of the Book | |
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| The Years of Inflation And Laissez-Faire: Economic Trends Prior to 1931 | |
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| The Silver Standard: China in the International Monetary System | |
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| China's Silver Standard | |
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| Silver as a Currency or a Commodity | |
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| Banks as Silver Traders: Parity and the Market Exchange Rate | |
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| The Price of Silver and Its Impact on China's Money Supply | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Coming of Industrialization: The Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta | |
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| The Cotton-Spinning Industry | |
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| The Silk-Reeling Industry | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Companies in Debt: The Capital Accumulation Problem | |
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| Capital Accumulation: The Initial Problem for Entrepreneurs | |
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| Searching for Loans and the Terms of Contracts | |
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| Debt and the Management of Companies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Depression Years, 1931-1937: The Transformation of Economics And Politics | |
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| The Agrarian Depression | |
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| The Decline in Agricultural Prices | |
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| The Terms of Trade for Rural Areas | |
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| The Fall of Rural Financial Institutions | |
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| The Collapse of Rural Villages: An Urban Problem | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Businesses in a Slump | |
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| The Silk-Reeling Industry | |
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| The Cotton-Spinning Industry | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Shanghai Financial Crisis, 1934-1935 | |
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| The Illusion of Urban Prosperity: From October 1929 to August 1931 | |
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| Bank's Delayed Liquidation: From September 1931 to June 1934 | |
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| The Shanghai Financial Crisis: From June 1934 to November 1935 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Coping with the Crisis: The Currency Reform of November 1935 | |
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| The Diplomatic Background to Currency Reform | |
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| The Currency Reform of November 4, 1935 | |
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| Recovery from the Great Depression | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reaches and Limitations: Economic Policies and the Nationalist Government Reconsidered | |
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| The Recovery of the Silk-Reeling Industry | |
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| The Recovery of the Cotton-Spinning Industry | |
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| The Rehabilitation of Rural Finance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Silver Standard and Chinese Industrialization | |
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| The Political Economy of the Monetary System | |
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| The Chinese State and the World Economy | |
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| Appendix: Estimates of China's International Balance of Payments | |
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| Reference Matter | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Character List | |
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| Index | |