China watcher : confessions of a Peking Tom
Title:
China watcher : confessions of a Peking Tom
Author:
Baum, Richard, 1940-2012.
ISBN:
9780295989976
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
xiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
General Note:
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book.".
Abstract:
Richard Baum shares anecdotes from his professional life as a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, discussing his experiences as a China watcher over the course of forty years.
Preface -- The Occidental tourist -- A dissertation is not a dinner party -- Confessions of a Peking Tom -- Through the looking glass -- Democracy deferred -- Capitalism with Chinese characteristics -- The road to Tiananmen -- After the deluge -- China rising -- God in the machine -- The wild, wild west -- Beijing revisited -- China watching, then and now -- The Gini in the jar -- Loose ends.
Personal Subject:
Subject:
| Sinologists -- United States -- Biography. |
| College teachers -- United States -- Biography. |
| China -- History -- 1949- |
| China -- Politics and government -- 1949- |
| Baum, Richard, 1940-2012. |
Summary:
Richard Baum shares anecdotes from his professional life as a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, discussing his experiences as a China watcher over the course of forty years.
Preface -- The Occidental tourist -- A dissertation is not a dinner party -- Confessions of a Peking Tom -- Through the looking glass -- Democracy deferred -- Capitalism with Chinese characteristics -- The road to Tiananmen -- After the deluge -- China rising -- God in the machine -- The wild, wild west -- Beijing revisited -- China watching, then and now -- The Gini in the jar -- Loose ends.