Complex sentence: The Truth About China is a 1933 non-fiction book about the alleged state of then-contemporary China written by Ralph Townsend, an American author who served as a US consul in Shanghai and Fuzhou between 1931 and 1933.
Split into simpler sentences: The Truth About China is a 1933 non-fiction book by Ralph Townsend which presented his observations on the state of then-contemporary China. Townsend served as a US consul in Shanghai and Fuzhou between 1931 and 1933.