FINALLY finished this one. This was actually the textbook for my HIS-260: Modern China class, which is why it took me so long to get finished. This book gave a comprehensive look into China through the years up to fairly present day. The book was published in 2019, so it is just slightly out of date, but did contain a lot of information. The major complaints that I have about this book revolve around the lack of details about the things I was actually interested in. Being a World War II major, I was very interested in China's role during World War II, because most of my area of study has revolved around the European Theatre. This contained very little about that. Very little was mentioned about the Rape of Nanjing, and even less was mentioned about any experiments conducted by the Japanese on the Chinese during this period. Unit 731 was briefly mentioned, and I wish it would have been covered more.