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.

Two pages from the China section of Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922) listing woolen mills and weaving works in China and Manchuria. Each entry gives location, capital, founding date, managers or promoters, equipment such as looms and spindles, output, and products. Larger entries include the Pu Li Woolen Mills near Peking and the Manchu-Mongol Woolen Mfg. Co. in Mukden. Chinese characters give the firm names.

A single-page table from Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922) listing cotton ginning mills in Shanghai. For each mill it gives the name (often with Chinese characters), street address, capital, manager and number of machines. It is a directory-style source for the early twentieth-century Shanghai cotton processing industry.

A 43-page section of Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922) listing Japanese cotton spinning and weaving mills, silk mills, towel and ribbon factories and related firms in alphabetical order. Each entry gives the company name in romanized Japanese with an English rendering, the products, office and mill locations, founding date, capital, officers, workforce and machinery such as spindles, looms and motors. Larger spinning companies also have cotton consumption by origin, output, exports, wages, dividends and trademarks for the first half of 1921. A short silk reeling and doupion section appears at the end.

A two-page directory listing from Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922, Japan section, pp. 946-947) covering Japanese hat and cap manufacturing companies. Each entry gives the company name with its English equivalent, office and works location, date established, capital, directors and auditors, and sometimes workforce, motive power and products. Companies are based mainly in Osaka, Tokyo, Hyogo, Gunma and Shizuoka.

A two-page directory of Japanese hosiery companies from the 1922 edition of Rea's Far Eastern Manual. Each entry gives the company's Japanese and English names, office address, date established, capital and paid-up capital, and its directors and auditors. Some entries also list reserves, dividends, or the number of workmen. Companies are in Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Wakayama, Himeji and other areas.

A directory of Chinese knitting mills, hosiery and underwear factories from the 1922-23 edition of Rea's Far Eastern Manual. Entries are grouped by city: Shanghai, Ningpo, Kashing, Sungkiang, Hongkong and other Chinese centers such as Hangchow, Harbin, Hankow, Peking and Tientsin. Each entry gives, where known, the address, capital, founding date, managers or directors, equipment, output, trademarks and sometimes financial results. Mill names are also given in Chinese characters.

A tabular directory of Chinese textile works registered in Canton up to August 8, 1923, reprinted from Rea's Far Eastern Manual. For each firm it gives the English and Chinese name, proprietor, capital in dollars, number of wooden and iron looms, and annual output. Products include native cloth, towels, hosiery, shirts, silk pongee, gauze, satin, crape, rope and lace. A final section lists smaller works elsewhere in Kwangtung Province, including Chaoanhsien, Kityang, Limkonghsien, Shiuhing, Szewui, Yamchow and Yeungkong.

A one-page directory listing from the Japan section of Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922) covering Japanese sail cloth manufacturers. Each entry gives the company's Japanese and English names, office and works locations, date of establishment, capital, reserves, officers and sometimes dividends or workforce. Companies include Akashi, Harima, Izumi, Kobe, Nihon, Omi, Osaka and Yokohama sail cloth firms.

A ten-page section from Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922-23) on silk filatures in China. It opens with a description of the steam filature process: cocoon buying, peeling, sorting, reeling, packing, and the other raw silk types (Tsatlee, yellow, Tussah, Canton). It then gives silk export statistics for 1922-23 and a directory of filatures by city (Shanghai, Wusih, Chungking, and others). The directory lists managers, reels or spindles, output in bales, receipts and profits, with Chinese characters for firm names. The final pages tabulate silk brands (chops), with their grades and places of origin.

A directory of Japanese silk reeling filatures from Rea's Far Eastern Manual, with statistics for June 1921 to May 1922. It is a long table arranged by prefecture, district and village. For each filature it gives the owner, number of basins, female and male employees, cocoon used, raw and waste silk produced, working days, cost of producing 100 kin of raw silk, and date established. A note converts kwan and kin to pounds.

A four-page directory of silk weaving mills in China from Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922). Entries are listed by city (Shanghai, Soochow, Hangchow, Huchow, Chefoo and miscellaneous centers) and give each mill's name in Chinese characters and romanization, plus address, managers, capital, founding date, number of looms, workforce, products and annual output where known. A few entries cover larger firms such as Wai Tzun & Co. and the Kiangsu Provincial Model Silk Weaving Mill, with equipment and financial detail.

A directory of small weaving, dyeing, towel, blanket and hosiery factories in China, taken from the China Section of Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922 edition, pp. 113-121). Entries are grouped by city (Shanghai, Tientsin, Peking, Hankow, Harbin, Kashing, Nantungchow, Ningpo, Sungkiang, Soochow, Wuhu, Wuchang, Foochow, Changshu and miscellaneous centers). Each gives the company name with Chinese characters, address, and often the founding date, capital, manager, products, looms, annual output and trademarks. Useful for researching the early 20th century Chinese machine and hand-loom textile industry, especially towel weaving.

A directory section from Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922) listing Japanese manufacturers of textile machinery, arranged roughly alphabetically. Each entry gives the firm's Japanese and English name, products (looms, spinning machines, spindles, shuttles, knitting and reeling machines), address, founding date, capital, officers, workforce and installed power and machine tools. It is useful for researching the Japanese textile machine-building industry around 1920.

A one-page directory listing thread factories in Shanghai from Rea's Far Eastern Manual (1922). Each entry gives the factory name with Chinese characters, address, manager, and sometimes capital, equipment, products, or founding date. Products include cotton, woolen and wax thread, lamp-wicks and rope.