China WatcherThis 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 Peoples Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the authors UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baums professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China watching