Richard Baum is Director of the Center for Chinese Studies and Professor of Political Science at the UCLA. He has written or edited eight books including Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping (Princeton University. Press, 1994), Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (Routledge, 1991), China's Four Modernizations: The New Technological Revolution (Westview Press, 1980), and Prelude to Revolution: Mao, the Party and the Peasant Question, 1962-1966 (Columbia University Press, 1975). Professor Baum also has been a visiting fellow or professor at universities in China, Hong Kong, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden. His recent work examines local governance in China. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary China, China Quarterly, China Information, Asian Survey, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies.

Seminar speeches given by Richard Baum:

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