Richard Baum, longtime China watcher, former director of UCLA’s U.S.-China Center and founder of the Chinapol listserv, died on December 14 at age 72. An obituary in the LA Times explains his life’s work and the path...
UCLA political scientist Richard Baum is interviewed by Five Books about the top books he recommends that look at obstacles to China’s reform: What’s your sense of where the whole thing is headed? I’m caught between these...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine, reviews UCLA Professor of Political Science Richard Baum’s memoir, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom. From the Huffington Post:...
In his new book, China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom, Richard Baum, professor of political science at UCLA recounts his personal experiences over 40 years of involvement with China as an academic and policy advisor and...
Written by Richard Baum, a professor of political science at UCLA, from Foreign Policy Research Institute website: Will a more mature, developed, and self-confident China be a cooperative partner or a strategic adversary? For...
UCLA political science professor Richard Baum has quit his post as an informal advisor to the Hillary Clinton campaign in protest over her recent comments on China. From Politico.com: Richard Baum, a political science professor...
A talk show, Focus 580, interviewing Richard Baum, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA on China: Topics touch on China’s two camps of people, rural and urban, emerging...
For the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Richard Baum, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, recommends Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Jonathan Cape, 2005 (to be published in the […]
Richard Baum, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies In 1978, there were 600 mainframe and microcomputers in China, all based on Soviet design. Eight years later, in 1986, he wrote the first article about computing in China for a...
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