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028 _aBrijwasi Book Distributors
_b;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
_c;BW/005587
_d;13/11/2019
082 _a951.05092 BAU
100 _aRichard Baum
245 _aChina watcher
_b: confessions of a Peking Tom
_c/Richard Baum
260 _aSeattle
_b: University of Washington Press
_c, ©2010.
300 _axiii, 328 pages
_c;24 cm.
365 _b1468
490 _aSamuel and Althea Stroum book.
505 _a 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.
520 _aRichard 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.
650 _aHistory
655 _aSinologists
700 _aRichard Baum
942 _cBOOK