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This audacious and illuminating memoir reflects on 40 years of learning about the People's Republic of China through China watching--the process by which outsiders gather and decipher official and unofficial information to figure out what's really going on behind China's veil of political secrecy and propaganda.--Richard Baum is professor of political science at UCLA. His many books include Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping. He is the presenter of a Great Courses video lecture series published by the Teaching Company.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
1. The Occidental Tourist
2. A Dissertation Is Not a Dinner Party
3. Confessions of a Peking Tom
4. Through the Looking Glass
5. Democracy Deferred
6. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
7. The Road to Tiananmen
8. After the Deluge
9. China Rising
10. God in the Machine
11. The Wild, Wild West
12. Beijing Revisited
13. China Watching, Then and Now
14. The Gini in the Jar
15. Loose Ends
Epilogue
Author's Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
About the author
Richard Baum
Summary
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.
