Introduction (Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern) -- I. Early China -- 1. The Zhouli as Constitutional Text (David Schaberg) -- 2. Offices of Writing and Reading in the Rituals of Zhou (Martin Kern) -- 3. The Many Dukes of Zhou in Early Sources (Michael Nylan) -- 4. Centering the Realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and Early Chinese Statecraft (Michael Puett) -- 5. Zheng Xuan's Commentary on the Zhouli (Andrew H. Plaks) -- II. Medieval China -- 6. The Role of the Zhouli in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Civil Administrative Traditions (David McMullen) -- 7. Wang Anshi and the Zhouli (Peter K. Bol) -- 8. Tension and Balance: Changes of Constitutional Schemes in Southern Song Commentaries on the Rituals of Zhou (Jaeyoon Song) -- III. Early Modern East Asia -- 9. Tokugawa Approaches to the Rituals of Zhou: The Late Mito School and "Feudalism" (Kate Wildman Nakai) -- 10. 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) -- 11. The Story of a Chapter: Changing Views of the "Artificer's Record" ("Kaogong ji" 工 ) and the Zhouli (Benjamin A. Elman) -- IV. Modern China -- 12. The Zhouli as the Late Qing Path to the Future (Rudolf G. Wagner) -- 13. Denouement: Some Conclusions about the Zhouli (Rudolf G. Wagner) -- Bibliography -- Index.