本书内容包括三篇自序、《〈中国史纲〉献辞》、十一章正文和作者未完成的第十二章《汉帝国的中兴与衰亡》及作者为该书宋史部分撰写的三篇文字，即《宋朝的开国和开国规模》、《北宋的外患与变法》、《北宋四子之生活与思想》。(This book includes three prefaces, "Dedication to the Outline of Chinese History", eleven chapters of text body, and the "Rise and Decline of Han Empire" (the 12th chapter) unfinished by the author, as well as three articles the author wrote for the history of Song Dynasty of the book: "State Founding in the Song Dynasty and Its Scale", "Foreign Aggression and Political Reform of Northern Song Dynasty", and "Life and Thought of the Four Scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty".)