Richard Dennis Baum 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

1. Introduction: The Perils of Partial Reform Richard Baum 2. Socialist Reform and Sino-Soviet Convergence Lowell Dittmer 3. Economic Reform, Social Mobilization, and Democratization in Post-Mao China Nina P. Halpern 4. The Rise (and Fall) of Public Opinion in Post-Mao China Stanley Rosen 5. Urban Private Business and China's Reforms Thomas B. Gold 6. Urban Reform and Relational Contracting in Post-Mao China: An Interpretation of the Transition from Plan to Market Dorothy J. Solinger 7. Market Reform and Disintegrative Corruption in Urban China Connie Squires Meaney 8. Partial Market Reform and Corruption in Rural China Jean C. Oi 9. Permanent Technological Revolution and China's Tortuous Path to Democratizing Leninism Edward Friedman 10. Epilogue: Communism, Convergence, and China's Political Convulsion Richard Baum