A section of Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922, with some later notes from 1923) on the cotton industry and cotton mills of China. It opens with an overview of cotton production, the growth of modern spinning and weaving, and tables of mills, spindles and looms by province, yarn consumption and machinery makes. The main part is an alphabetical directory of Chinese, Japanese and British-owned mills, giving location, founding date, capital, officers, spindle and loom counts and makers, power, output, trade marks and some histories.