1. The traditional role of tribute 2. Tributaries of the late Ming Table 1: Ming tributaries c. 1587 3. The Li Fan Yuan (Court of Colonial Affairs) under the Ch'ing 4. Ch'ing tributaries from the south and east,-general regulations Table 2: Regular Ch'ing tributaries Table 3: Frequency and routes of tribute 5. European countries in the tributary system Table 4: European embassies to the Court of Peking 6. Ch'ing tribute embassies and foreign trade Table 5: Tribute embassies 1662-1911 Table 6: Non-tributary trading countries 1818 7. A selected list of Ch'ing works 1644-1860 on maritime relations 8. Index of tributaries listed in six editions of the Collected Statutes
Preface Part I: Preliminaries Column 1: Cracking the Oyster Column 2: Aha! Algorithms [Sketch] Column 4: Writing Correct Programs [Sketch] Column 5: A Small Matter of Programming [Sketch] Part II: Performance Column 7: The Back of the Envelope Column 8: Algorithm Design Techniques [Sketch] Part III: The Product Column 14: Heaps [Sketch] Column 15: Strings of Pearls Epilog to the First Edition Epilog to the Second Edition Appendix 2: An Estimation Quiz Appendix 3: Cost Models for Time and Space Appendix 4: Rules for Code Tuning Solutions for Column 1 Column 5 Column 7 Column 15 Index About The Book Why a Second Edition? To Readers of the First Edition About the First Edition Errata Supporting Material Source Code Web Sites Relevant to the Book Animation of Sorting Algorithms Tricks of the Trade Teaching Material