In the first episode of Talking Heads, Orville Schell discusses his New York Review of Books essay, “China Strikes Back.” Schell recently joined Jimmy Carter on a visit to China, where the former president received a less-than-warm welcome by the…
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Leader Taps Into Chinese Classics in Seeking to Cement Power | New York Times
Mr. Xi’s “rule of law” looks more like the “rule by law” advocated by the Legalists, said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. Mr. Xi wants party power to be applied…
China media blame foreign meddling for Hong Kong protests | Asian Correspondent
“Nationalism born of humiliation,” says Orville Schell, one of America’s foremost experts on China, is “like genetic material you can’t get off the genome. It keeps re-expressing itself.” via China media blame foreign meddling for Hong Kong protests | Asian…
Manohla Dargis: By the Book | New York Times
Q. If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be? A. One book is “Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm,” by Orville Schell, which was instrumental in my becoming…
Will China Crush the Hong Kong Protests? Wall Street Journal
For anyone who observed the student-led mass protests that gripped Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for seven weeks in 1989, watching students fill the streets of Hong Kong in 2014 is a bittersweet experience. There is a natural instinct for Western observers—reared…
A Chinese Artist Confronts Environmental Disaster The New Yorker
What were all these sick animals—lions, wolves, camels, monkeys, gazelles, pandas, and zebras—doing on this dilapidated Chinese fishing boat, sailing past the famous frieze of colonial banks, trading houses, and clubs that make up Shanghai’s Bund? The city’s glass skyline…
Dalai Lama visa issue sinks Nobel laureates’ summit. Where can he travel? | Christian Science Monitor
Orville Schell, writer and director of the Asia Society’s US-China program, says the White House should continue to host the spiritual leader, “since the last time I checked, [the US] is a relatively free country. And just as China doesn’t…
How long will Beijing allow HK protests to continue? | News & Observer
Orville Schell, the director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, reminded in a televised interview that “nobody could quite believe that China would send troops in” to crush the Tiananmen student protests in 1989. “But they did,” he…
Hong Kong vs. Tiananmen: Social media fuel ‘umbrella revolution’ | USA Today
Orville Schell, a veteran China observer based at the Asia Society in New York, distinguished between the Chinese government’s ability to control communication inside the country and outside it. “They won’t be effective in controlling much of what’s going out…
Orville Schell’s Closing Remarks at “China Hands Lunch” Over Seas Press Club
Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, speaking about China’s economy during a panel lunch at the Overseas Press Club’s China Hands Reunion on September 12, 2014. Schell has covered China since 1964 for…