New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. 283, map, top corner front flyleaf cut off, DJ discolored and small tears at spine. More

Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 328 pages. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Autographed copy sticker on DJ. Includes Foreword and Preface, and chapters on The Occidental Tourist; A Dissertation Is Not a Dinner Party; Confessions of a Peking Tom; Through the Looking Glass; Democracy Deferred; Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics; The Road to Tiananmen; After the Duluge; China Rising; God in the Machine; The Wild, Wild West; Beijing Revisited; China Watching, Then and Now; The Gini in the Jr; and Loose Ends. Includes Epilogue, Author's Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Index. Contains Epilogue, Author's Notes, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Index. Personal portraits of the American scholarly community and of a changing China, from the Cultural Revolution right up to the present day, make this a book that is hard to put down. Richard Baum has given us a rare and intimate gift: a wonderfully funny and revealing chronicle of adventure as experienced by one of the greatest China watchers of our time. Richard Dennis Baum (July 8, 1940 – December 14, 2012) was an American China watcher, professor emeritus of political science at UCLA, and former director emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, noted for his many academic works on Chinese politics. On February 20, 1989, Baum and scholars Harry Harding and Michel Oksenberg met with George Bush, then incoming ambassador to China James Lilley, and others to brief the president on U.S.-China relations. Baum advised that it would be better to talk about human rights in the most general terms possible. More