BookTalk

China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom

March 26, 2010 / Philadelphia

Ruchard Baum

Professor Richard Baum is past director of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies. He has written and edited nine books, including Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping (Princeton U., 1996), Prelude to Revolution: Mao, the Party, and the Peasant Question, 1962-66 (Columbia U., 1975), and most recently, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom (U. Washington, 2010). He is the founder and list manager of Chinapol, the world's largest dedicated listserv for professional China scholars, journalists, and policy analysts. His current research focuses on (1) the impact of China's post-Mao reforms on local governance in the PRC; (2) the impact of globalization on political development in post-reform China; and (3) US-China relations and the prospects for war and peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Dr. Baum has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary China, The China Quarterly, China Information, Asian Survey, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. As a media commentator, Professor Baum shares his expert knowledge of Chinese politics with CNN International, the BBC, NPR, the Asian Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Voice of America (VOA).

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