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Orville Schell

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society and a former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. He is a coauthor, with John Delury, of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century. His most recent book is a novel, My Old Home. (March 2022)

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Mount Everest and the Main Rongbuk Glacier, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, 2007; photograph by David Breashears. For a view of the same landscape in 1921, see the following page. Both photographs will be in the exhibition ‘Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya,’ at the Asia Society Museum, New York City, July 13–August 15, 2010.

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August 14, 2008 issue

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