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China Watcher - Confessions of a Peking Tom (Paperback)
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China Watcher - Confessions of a Peking Tom (Paperback)
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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 -
the process by which outsiders gather and decipher official and
unofficial information to figure out what's really going on behind
China's veil of political secrecy and propaganda. Baum writes
entertainingly, telling his narrative with witty stories about
people, places, and eras. China Watcher will appeal to scholars and
followers of international events who lived through the era of
profound political and academic change described in the book, as
well as to younger, post-Mao generations, who will enjoy its
descriptions of the personalities and political forces that shaped
the modern field of China studies.
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