Peking Tom Perspectives: Richard Baum Honorary Seminar | AshCast by Harvard University published on 2013-05-07T18:52:07Z As a leading scholar on China public policy and a professor of political science at UCLA, Richard Baum was author of over 50 scholarly studies, as well as author of five books and co-author or editor of five additional books. Baum also launched Chinapol, one of the world's largest and most influential internet community convening China experts, journalists, and policymakers. Nearly 20 years later, the Listserv group has expanded to 1,300 members. His 1996 book, Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping is "considered a definitive work on the transformation of China in the decades immediately after the communist revolutionary leader's 1976 death" (LA Times obituary). Published in 2010, Baum’s China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom describes his own personal history in China over the last 40 years starting in the 1960s. This panel honored both his memory and his notable contributions to the field of academic study on China.