Richard Baum

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Richard Baum
BornJuly 8, 1940
DiedDecember 14, 2012(2012-12-14) (aged 72)[2]
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
ThesisRevolution and reaction in rural China: the struggle between two roads during the socialist education movement (1962–1966) and the great proletarian cultural revolution (1966–1968) (1970)
Doctoral advisorRobert A. Scalapino[1]

Richard Dennis Baum (Chinese: 包瑞嘉; pinyin: Bāo Ruìjiā; July 8, 1940 – December 14, 2012)[3] 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. Baum credited Rhoda Sutherland of Oxford University with inspiring his interest in linguistics.[4]

  1. ^ Baum, Richard (2010). China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom. University of Washington Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780295989976.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Meg (December 18, 2012). "Obituary: Richard Baum, 72, prominent China scholar and UCLA professor". UCLA. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Richard, Baum, Distinguished "China Watcher," 1940–2012"
  4. ^ Baum, herausgegeben von Richard (1994). Lingua et traditio : Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft und der neueren Philologien : Festschrift für Hans Helmut Christmann zum 65. Geburtstag. Tübingen: Narr. p. 380. ISBN 3823341375. Retrieved 28 September 2014.