From his days as a student of Far Eastern History at Harvard College through his graduate work in Chinese History at the University of California, Berkeley, to his latest work on China, Hong Kong, Tibet and the media, Orville Schell has devoted his professional life to reporting on and writing about Asia.

Author of 14 books - nine about China, including "Virtual Tibet," "Mandate of Heaven," and "Discos and Democracy" - Dean Schell has also written widely about Asia and other topics for Wired, The New York Review of Books, The NewYorker, Harper's, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Newsweek and other national magazines.

Dean Schell has also served as correspondent and consultant for several PBS "Frontline" documentaries as well as an Emmy award-winning program on China for CBS' "60 Minutes”

He is the recipient of Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and A Columbia/Freedom Forum Fellowship. he is also the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award, a Harvard/Stanford Shorenstein Award and numerous writing prizes.