Richard Baum
Richard Baum | |
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| Born | July 8, 1940 |
| Died | December 14, 2012 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Revolution 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 advisor | Robert A. Scalapino |
Richard Dennis Baum (Chinese: 包瑞嘉; pinyin: Bāo Ruìjiā; July 8, 1940 – December 14, 2012) 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.