Volume 1: Introduction.
1. The Start of the Silver Journey and Experiments in Domestic Film (1896-1921).
2. The Start of Chinese National Cinema and Movie Stars (1922-1931).
3. The Reconstruction of Left-wing Films (1932-1933).
4. The Construction of Image and Spirit (1932-1937).
5. Context and Identity (1938-1941).
6. Films in the Occupied Period (1941-1949).
7. Society, Films and Responsibility (1945-1947).
8. Film of the Dramatically Changing Era (1948-1949).

Volume 2: Introduction.
1. Films Shouldering a Newborn State Power (1949-1951).
2. Imagination and a Turning Point (1952-1956).
3. In Collective Sentiments: The True Mirror (1957-1965).
4. Death of Film: A Portrait of Delirium in the Cultural Revolution Period (1966-1971).
5. The Scene of Revolution in a Special Period (1972-1974).
6. Under the Redness (1975-1976).

Volume 3: Introduction.
1. Collision of Films in a New Era (1977-1979).
2. Politics and Cultural Rhetoric (1980-1989).
3. Film, Market and Society (1990-1993).
4. The Appearance of Blockbusters (1994-1999).
5. Globalization and Imagination in Films (2000-2006).
6. The Operation and Influence of Marketization (2007-2009).
7. Image Production and the Film at the Age of Digital (2010-2012).
8. From the Era of Globalization to the Internet Age (2013-).