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Orville Schell

Orville Schell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City, and the coauthor with John Delury of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century. (April 2016)

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

Crackdown in China

Xi’s anticorruption campaign has morphed into a mass purge aimed at political rivals

April 21, 2016 issue

‘China Strikes Back’: An Exchange

November 20, 2014 issue

Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter at the White House with their wives after a gala at the Kennedy Center that was held in Deng’s honor, January 1979

China Strikes Back!

It is now not only the West that has wealth

October 23, 2014 issue

Exchange

Perry Link

‘China Strikes Back’: An Exchange

November 20, 2014 issue

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.

The Message from the Glaciers

Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis

Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

by Fred Pearce

Too Smart for Our Own Good: The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

by Craig Dilworth

Black Soot and the Survival of Tibetan Glaciers

by Baiqing Xu, Junji Cao, James Hansen, and others

On Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System: Formidable Challenges Ahead

by Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Y. Feng

The Great Melt: The Coming Transformation of the Arctic

by Alun Anderson

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May 27, 2010 issue

Letter

Jairam Ramesh

‘The Message from the Glaciers’

July 15, 2010 issue

China’s Boom: The Dark Side in Photos

Some of his arresting images show plumes of pitch black and garishly colored yellow and red smoke belching out of factory and power plant chimneys – almost all caused by the burning of soft coal. They are reminiscent of the eerie, unnatural images and colors that blink out of a television set when the tint controls are turned all the way to one side.

October 29, 2009

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 New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy

by Peter Hays Gries

China's Great Leap: The Beijing Olympic Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges

Edited by Minky Worden, with an introduction by Nicholas Kristof

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August 14, 2008 issue

Baghdad: The Besieged Press

April 6, 2006 issue

The Jiang Zemin Mystery

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

by Bruce Gilley

September 23, 1999 issue

Human Rights in China

June 14, 1990 issue

Keeping the Faith

December 21, 1989 issue

Letters from the Other China

July 20, 1989 issue

China’s Spring

In Tiananmen Square, China had spawned one of the largest and best organized nonviolent political protest movements the world had ever seen.

June 29, 1989 issue

Letter

Jonathan D. Spence

China Witness, 1989

October 12, 1989 issue

Free the Czechs

December 6, 1979 issue