The origin and early development of the Chinese writing system

Title
Contents
Figures, Preface
Preface

Prolegomena
Introduction
Definition of writing
Forerunners of Writing
Shang formation, Pictographic origins
Pictographic origins
Logographs & zodiographs
Graphic multivalence
Determinatives
Multivalence of graphs
Egyptian - Multivalence of graphs
Sumerian - Multivalence of graphs
Paronomasia (Chinese)
Polyphony (Chinese)
Ch\'in-Han reformation
Early legend & classical tradition
Wen & Tzu
Liu shu & Shuo wen chieh tzu
Impact of Chinese world-view
Why Chinese script did not evolve into alphabet

Glossary of technical terms - Abbreviated phonophoric
Glossary of technical terms - Early Archaic Chinese
Glossary of technical terms - Protom(ic)
Abbreviations, Bibliography
Bibliography
Index of Chinese characters
Index - Affixation
Index - Chinese script
Index - Liang chu culture
Index - Sumero-Akkadian
Corrigendum