TY - BOOK AU - Richard Baum AU - Richard Baum TI - China watcher : : confessions of a Peking Tom T2 - Samuel and Althea Stroum book SN - 9780295992532 U1 - 951.05092 BAU PY - 2010/// CY - Seattle PB - : University of Washington Press KW - History KW - Sinologists N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -