In short: It's NOT a recommended book for Traditional Chinese Character study. There's only about 20 pages of useful recommendations and tips for students. Honestly, this book only covers about 750 characters comprehensively. The rest of it was little more than a character listing with pronunciation and a brief description. To add insult to injury, the book is Copyright 1999, not 2016! If one likes this style of book, then please consider Dr. Alan Hoenig's "Traditional Chinese Characters" instead:Traditional Chinese Characters: Learn & Remember 2,193 Character Meanings (An EZChinesey Guide)TLDR:Looking at Amazon's description, one is led to believe that it was published in 2016. However, only the cover was updated. This is a Revised Edition of a 1979 book, and was last updated and copyrighted 1999. I don't think ANY study text within has been updated since 1999. It is printed in Singapore.There are about 20 pages of good background material on the history, pronunciation, and recommended methodology for learning. The 214 traditional radicals are given a nice index inside the front cover. However, the rest of the book is pretty disappointing.There are 1062 character slots for "comprehensive" learning. However, most of the radicals are amongst the 1062. Other "unused" characters & "components" were also found amongst the 1062 characters, likely for education purposes. Explanations given for the "unused" characters were variations of "Not in modern use as an independent character." That leaves roughly about 750 characters that are comprehensively presented. An additional 1245 characters are presented with only a brief definition, pronunciation, with an occasional word usage example. (And even some of those 1245 are just radicals and unused components.)This may be a good textbook in conjunction with an instructor led course specifically using this material But for anyone looking for good self-study reference or guides, I honestly cannot see how it's of any great use. That being said, I did find the nineteen pages (from page 12-30) fairly useful.Pros:1. Very nice font and font size were used for the traditional characters; easy to see and study individual strokes within each character.2. There is a traditional Chinese radical index within the front cover; the index has pointers to each radical's comprehensive listing.3. There are some good Chinese character study tips and background; but it only lasts about 20 pages.4. If applicable, the "simplified" character version appears in the lower right of any traditional character listing.5. The cover looks nicely updated for 2016.Cons:1. The material within is copyrighted 1999, not 2016.2. Only about 750 characters are comprehensively shown.3. Only 9 slots were allocated for each character's stroke-order guide. If a character had more than nine strokes, then the stroke guide was consolidated (down to 9 steps).4. No English definition index is provided. One must know the exact number of (character) strokes or the PinYin pronunciation to find a character.5. Organization was not easy to follow.Bottom line - I CANNOT recommend this book for anyone seriously looking to study Chinese Traditional characters. A better book would be one from Dr. Alan Hoenig, Copyright 2013. "Traditional Chinese Characters". That book is not without faults. But it is a much more useful self-study and reference book for traditional Chinese characters.Traditional Chinese Characters: Learn & Remember 2,193 Character Meanings (An EZChinesey Guide)If one does not need this particular style of book... There are also free (PDF) books available for self-study, such as "Speak Mandarin in Five Hundred Words". A "1000" character version and others are also available. They are provided courtesy of the OCAC (Overseas Chinese Affairs Council). Please ask if anyone needs pointers on how to find that or similar study materials.Thank you for clicking on the HELPFUL button below if you found any of this information useful. Feel free to post/ask any questions or comments as well. And THANK YOU for reading!