When he first visited Beijing in 1975, Orville Schell noticed a country that lacked advertisements, private cars and private property. Today, China possesses the world’s second largest economy. Schell, the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia…
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What China Really Wants Asia Times
NEW YORK – The China pavilion is a red, inverted pyramid in Shanghai built for the city’s bustling 2010 World Expo. While the pavilion pays some homage to China’s ancient past, it mostly shows off China’s 21st century ambitions, with…
Diane Rehm Show
By some estimates, China will likely surpass the United States to become the leading economic superpower by 2016. The world’s most populous country now boasts a rapidly expanding military and growing influence in global affairs. But these accomplishments have come…
Losing Face, Leaping Forward The New York Times
In “Wealth and Power,” their engaging narrative of the intellectual and cultural origins of China’s modern rise, Orville Schell and John Delury note that the story of Goujian was a favorite of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who united China under his…
For Your China Reading List: ‘Wealth and Power’ – James Fallows – The Atlantic
You could have a long debate on whether we’re in anything like a Golden Age for China itself. But beyond debate it is a golden age of writing about China, and therefore of things to read. There are overviews; universe-in-the-particular…
Q. and A.: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation – NYTimes.com The New York Times
In a provocative new book whose ideas have already begun stirring debate among China watchers, Orville Schell and John Delury argue that the quest for national rejuvenation, or for wealth and power, 富強, has long been at the heart of…
Looking Past G.D.P. to the Changes in China Ahead The New York Times
For those looking for historical support that the party can enact another round of deep reforms, I highly recommend “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century,” an excellent new book from Orville Schell and John Delury. The…
The rise and rebirth of Chinese realpolitik Financial Times
Confucius taught that “propriety and righteousness” were the foundations of the state, and “power and profit” were its enemies. The history of modern China, culminating in the wealth-creating reforms unleashed by Deng Xiaoping, has been dedicated to proving him wrong.…
A Rising China Needs a New National Story The Wall Street Journal
Every July, amid festivities and fireworks, the U.S. and France mark their birth as nations. Accustomed as we are in the West to histories that begin with triumph—the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the storming of the Bastille—it may…
Chairman of the Board Foreign Policy
In his opening remarks at the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, an annual meeting between high ranking U.S. and Chinese officials, Vice President Joseph Biden spoke about his first visit to China in 1976, the year that Chairman Mao Zedong died.…