China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom

by Richard Baum

Book Overview

This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People's Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author's UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum's professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295992530
• ISBN13: 9780295992532
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher