Orville Schell

Orville Schell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City. (August 2008)

From the Review

August 14, 2008: China: Humiliation & the Olympics

Dark Matter a film directed by Chen Shi-Zheng

Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008 by Xu Guoqi

China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society by Daniel A. Bell

China's Great Leap: The Beijing Olympic Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges Edited by Minky Worden, with an introduction by Nicholas Kristof

China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy by Peter Hays Gries

April 6, 2006: Baghdad: The Besieged Press

September 23, 1999: The Jiang Zemin Mystery

Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite by Bruce Gilley

June 14, 1990: Human Rights in China (letter)

December 21, 1989: Keeping the Faith

July 20, 1989: Letters from the Other China

June 29, 1989: China's Spring

December 6, 1979: Free the Czechs (letter)

From New York Review Books

Now They Tell Us Michael Massing describes the American press coverage of the war in Iraq as "the unseen war," an ironic reference given the number of reporters in Iraq and in Doha, Qatar, the location of the Coalition Media Center with its $250,000 stage set.

Books by Orville Schell

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood (2000)
Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders (1995)
Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future (1994)
Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform (1988)
Modern Meat (1984)
To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the Eighties (1984)
Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!: China Encounters the West (1980)
Brown (1978)
In the People's Republic: An American's First-Hand View of Living and Working in China (1978)
In the People's Republic: An American's First-Hand View of Living and Working in China (1977)
The Town That Fought to Save Itself (1976)
Modern China; The Making of a New Society, from 1839 to the Present (1972)
Modern China: The Story of a Revolutio (1972)