She stated the items of photography "are refreshingly different from the ones that are normally reproduced in Chinese history books", "especially the black and white" ones. There is one further reading list per chapter, and the book has some footnotes. Theresa Munford in Far Eastern Economic Review, described it as "more of a textbook" than The Gate of Heavenly Peace, which she described as lighter reading. Spence stated that he chose 1600 as the starting point so he could "get a full sense of how China's current problems have arisen, and of what resourcesthe Chinese can call upon to solve them." According to Spence, the goal was to explain how Modern China was created rather than writing about Modern China directly. The Search for Modern China is a 1990 non-fiction book by Jonathan Spence, published by Century Hutchinson and W.
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