you didn't ask for china specialists you asked for academics there's a difference between the two and in any case you seemed to know what to find so why play a game and ask me to provide you with a list schram does praise the book nathan had more criticisms to make nd only expressed a belief that the book could be valuable furthermore why isn't baum a china specialist he's written books on mao and the cultural revolution he's also part of ucla's center for chinese studies also if people like goodman bernstein focus on politics is a china specialist then i think michael yahuda's opinion is at least notable lastly and most importantly how does being a china specialist make you better able to consider the book than a historian who does not focus on china if some of the greatest weaknesses of the book are historiographical any historian should be able to spot them indeed does someone who specialises in politics like goodman have that historical grounding that would be useful not suggesting he doesn't just wondering