China watcher : confessions of a Peking Tom /
Richard Baum.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2010.
- xiii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- 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 deluge -- China rising -- God in the machine -- The wild, wild west -- Beijing revisited -- China watching, then and now -- The Gini in the jar -- Loose ends.