Richard Baum

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 watching...