《中国历代政治得失》为作者的专题演讲合集，分别就中国汉、唐、宋、明、清五代的政府组织、百官职权、考试监察、财经赋税、兵役义务等种种政治制度作了提要勾玄的概观与比照，叙述因革演变，指陈利害得失。既高屋建瓴地总括了中国历史与政治的精要大义，又点明了近现代国人对传统文化和精神的种种误解。言简意赅，语重心长，实不失为一部简明的“中国政治制度史”。

《中国史学名著(第2版)》为一本简明的史学史著作。在讲座的基础上写成，一作者从学科史的角度，以点带面、提纲挈领地勾勒了中国史学的发生、发展、特征和存在的问题，并从中西史学的比照中见出中国史学乃至中国思想和学术的精神与大义。

《国史新论(新版)》作者“旨求通俗，义取综合”，从中国的社会文化演变、传统的政治教育制度等多个侧面，融古今、贯诸端，对中国几千年历史之特质、症结、演变及对当今社会现实的巨大影响，作了高屋建瓴、深入浅出的精彩剖析，内中各篇，“有以分别眼光治史所得，有以变化眼光治史所得。每一论题，必分古今先后时代之不同，而提示其演变。而各篇著作有其共通之本源，则本之于当前社会之思潮”。

本书由钱穆先生1961年在香港的8次演讲汇集而成，从通史和文化史的总题及政治史、社会史、经济史、学术史、历史人物、历史地理等6个分题言简意赅地论述了中国历史研究的大意与方法。实为作者此后30年史学见解之本源所在，变可视为钱穆先生对中国史学大纲要义的简要叙述。
本书主要意义而分本讲演为八题。最先是讲如何研究通史，最后是讲如何研究文化史。其实文化史必然是一部通史，而一部通史，则最好应以文化为其主要之内容。其间更分政治、社会、经济、学术、人物与地理之六分题，每一分题，各有其主要内容，而以文化为其共通对象与共通骨干。

Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)--a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, Gardner focuses on Chu Hsi's passionate interest in education and its importance to individual development. For hundreds of years, every literate person in China was familiar with Chu Hsi's teachings. They informed the curricula of private academies and public schools and became the basis of the state's prestigious civil service examinations. Nor was Chu's influence limited to China. In Korea and Japan as well, his teachings defined the terms of scholarly debate and served as the foundation for state ideology. Chu Hsi was convinced that through education anyone could learn to be fully moral and thus travel the road to sagehood. Throughout his life, he struggled with the philosophical questions underlying education: What should people learn? How should they go about learning? What enables them to learn? What are the aims and the effects of learning? Part One of Learning to Be a Sage examines Chu Hsi's views on learning and how he arrived at them. Part Two presents a translation of the chapters devoted to learning in the Conversations of Master Chu.