Introduction : ships in the Nanhai / Wang Gungwu
Rare and strange goods : international trade in ninth-century Asia / John Guy
Dating the Belitung shipwreck / J. Keith Wilson and Michael Flecker
Chinese ceramics in the late Tang dynasty / Regina Krahl
Pearl cups like the moon : the Abbasid reception of Chinese ceramics / Jessica Hallett
Metal objects on the Belitung shipwreck / François Louis
A ninth-century Arab shipwreck in Indonesia : the first archaeological evidence of direct trade with China / Michael Flecker
The jewel of Muscat : reconstructing a ninth-century sewn-plank boat / Tom Vosmer
The navigational route of the Belitung shipwreck and the late Tang ceramic trade / Hsieh Ming-liang
Tang dynasty Changsha ceramics / Liu Yang
White ware with green décor / Hsieh Ming-liang
Chemical fingerprinting : tracing the origins of the green-splashed white ware / Li Baoping, Chen Yuh-shiow, and Nigel Wood
Green wares of southern China / Regina Krahl
White wares of northern China / Regina Krahl
Tang blue-and-white / Regina Krahl
Bronze mirrors / François Louis
Gold and silver wares on the Belitung shipwreck / Qi Dongfang.