: confessions of a Peking Tom Richard Baum creator Richard Baum text Sinologists Seattle : University of Washington Press , ©2010 monographic eng

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xiii, 328 pages ;24 cm. 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. /Richard Baum History 951.05092 BAU 9780295992532 Brijwasi Book Distributors ;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092 191125 20200114124910.0