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China achieves ancient ‘dream’ of wealth and power. What’s missing: respect. – CSMonitor.com

Q & A: China-hand Orville Schell talks on China’s troubling nationalism, recent tensions with Japan, the Dalai Lama, Nobel-winner Liu Xiaobo, and China’s unrequited craving for respect. via China achieves ancient ‘dream’ of wealth and power. What’s missing: respect. –…

Chinese Investment In U.S. Tech Booms Despite Cybersecurity Fears

“California is the perfect place to develop the best possible model for interacting with China on high tech or almost any other kind of investment,” said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. “Washington…

March 20: ChinaFile Presents: China’s Economic Rise, Through the Eyes of Financial Times Correspondents | New York | Asia Society

China’s economic rise takes a prominent place in the headlines, but what — and who — is behind the news that we read? What goes into reporting on some of the most important stories today? Several generations of Financial Times…

China demands answers from Malaysia about missing plane | PBS NewsHour

While relatives wait for news in a Beijing hotel, China is demanding answers from the Malaysian government about the disappearance and search for Flight 370. Orville Schell, who heads the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society talks with…

The Paulson Institute Contemporary China Series: Orville Schell

In this talk hosted by The University of Chicago, Orville Schell discusses China’s long march to the 21st century. Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flb5yg41eVI

Book review: National humiliation’s role in China’s wealth and power | The National The National

Wealth and Power is a work of intellectual history disguised as a guide to China’s economic development. It covers a fascinating period of upheavals, riots and revolutions, social, economic, and political. As the book’s authors Orville Schell and John Delury make…

Jung Chang’s ‘Empress Dowager Cixi’ The New York Times

For historians, there is no more powerful aphrodisiac than an exciting topic buoyed by a raft of unexploited sources, raising the prospect of a revisionist look at an important figure or even an entire era. There are few leaders in…

BBC Radio 4 – The World Tonight

The Asian Century? Recent global polls suggest people in many parts of the world believe China is about to – or already has -overtaken the US as the world’s leading economy. Despite rapid growth in China and many other Asian…

“China’s Macbeth” Bo Xilai Gets Life in Prison PBS Newshour

The story of fallen Chinese politician Bo Xilai had everything – affairs, embezzlement, bribes and scenes from a lavish lifestyle. Orville Schell, of the Asia Society, said Bo Xilai’s story is that of a Chinese “MacBeth.” The Oxford and Harvard-educated…