China watcher
Subtitle: confessions of a Peking Tom
By: Richard Baum.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780295989976
Subjects: Baum, Richard, -- 1940-; Sinologists -- United States -- Biography; College teachers -- United States -- Biography; China -- History -- 1949-; China -- Politics and government -- 1949-
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The occidental tourist; title: A dissertation is not a dinner party; title: Confessions of a Peking Tom; title: Through the looking glass; title: Democracy deferred; title: Capitalism with Chinese characteristics; title: The road to Tiananmen; title: After the deluge; title: China rising; title: God in the machine; title: The wild, wild west; title: Beijing revisited; title: China watching, then and now; title: The Gini in the jar; title: Loose ends.