The material covered in the mainland's textbooks is arranged in a progression from primitive society through slave society, feudal society and semi-colonial / semi-feudal society to socialist society, unlike Taiwan's textbooks which follow the order of the dynasties from Xia to Shang to Zhou and so on.
大陸教科書以原始、奴隸、封建、半殖民半封建、到社會主義社會來排列章節順序，有別於台灣以夏、商、周…… 等朝代順序來排列。