A．Historical Study of Chinese Hand-craft Paper&by Chen,Ta-chuanA．The invention of paper 13
a．Inventor-Ts'ai Lun 13
b．The paper before Ts'ai Lun 14
c．Plant-fibre instead of law silk 17
d．Ts'ai Lun's rag paper 19
e．Hsih-tie-possible tree bark 22
f．Relative chart of the materials of paper and cloth in Han Dynasty 24
B．The writing substances before paper 27
a．Signal post,knotted cords,cutting-stem 29
b．Stone,cliff,scrapper 30
c．Brick,pottery 32
d．Oracle bones and shells 34
e．Bronze vessels 36
f．Bamboo,wood 38
g．Fabrics of silk,hemp,ramie,creeper and banana fibre 40
h．Tree-bark cloth and"paper" 43
i．Papyrus,parchment,leaves of trees 46
C．Paper instead of bamboo period(A.D.105-264) 53
a．The most ancient paper in the world now in Taiwan 55
b．Paper made by Tso-po 59
c．Ancient documents in ruins of Loulan 60
D．Expanding period(A.D.265-419) 66
a．Tseh-Li paper(1st.paper with floating agents) 67
b．Paper made from mulberry-bark 68
c．Mih-hsiang paper(possible imported papyrus) 68
d．Paper for collecting silk-worms eggs 69
e．Color papers 72
f．Old paper discoveried in north-west China 75
g．Copy-slips by Wang Hsi-chih 78
h．The time of modifying hand mould 81
E．Continuous development period(A.D.420-617) 89
a．Paper made by Chang-yung 91
b．Paper-making office 91
c．"Leaves paper"in Lin-yih region 92
d．Oiled Paper 93
e．First paper kits 93
f．The early spirit-paper 94
g．Mulberry-bark paper in Kuang-tu 96
h．Art of paper-making introduced into Japan through Korea 96
F．A prosperous period(A.D.618-1276) 99
a．Sizing paper,yellew paper,hard yellow paper 102
b．Wax paper 105
c．Fancy note-paper made by miss Hsieh-tao 107
d．Mr.Sieh's ten kinds of color paper 111
e．Pine-flower color paper 112
f．Cloud-white in a blue paper 113
g．Paper made in Cheng-hsin-Tang 113
h．Beated white paper 117
i．Duke of"paper-region" 119
j．Golden-spots paper,fish-eggs paper 122
k．Micaceous paper 123
l．"Barbarian"paper 125
m．Earlier letters 131
n．Manuscript books and documents 132
o．The earliest prints 138
P．Wax paper quicken printing art 140
q．Wood-block printing books 152
r．Bank-notes 157
s．Papers for famous calligraphys and paintings in Tang and Sung Dynasty 163
t．The spread of papermaking from China to West 187
G．Maintenance period(A.D.1277-1886) 199
a．Papers for famous calligraphys and paintings in Yun and Min dynasty 201
b．Quality and evaluation 207
c．Mould width and standard size 213
d．"Tien-Kung-Kai-Wu"and hand-made paper 227
e．"Hsuan chih"-a fine brush-writing paper 245
f．Paper products 249
g．Wood-block printing paintings 257
h．Papers for special use-clothes,coverlet,to appease hunger,to heal diseases 266
H．Drowning down period(A.D.1887-) 275
a．Earlier machine-made paperin China 277
b．Modified hand-made paper 280
c．Paper schools and engineers 282
d．The paper mills after World War Ⅱ in China 282
e．Modernized pulp and paper processes 293
f．Paper industry in Free China 297
I．The Future of Chinese hand-made paper 315
a．New method in a spirit-paper mill 319
b．Artisticalized papers 319
c．Recreatable ways 321
Bibliography 329
Appendix 332
Chronology of Chinese paper and historical back ground 336