|
Orville Schell was born in New York City in 1940, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University and did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, in Chinese History where he earned a PhD (Abd). He has worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist and, since his first trip for the New Yorker Magazine in 1975, traveled widely in China.
Schell has also been a long-time contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Harpers, Granta, Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The China Quarterly, Time, World Policy Journal and The New York Review of Books. He has been the recipient of many writing fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Columbia University/Freedom Forum Media Studies Center. His numerous writing awards include the Harvard/Stanford Shorenstein Award for Asian Journalism, Overseas Press Club of America's Award for The Best Article on a Foreign Subject, the Mencken Award for the Best Feature and a Page One Award for the Best Investigative Story. The author of fourteen books, nine of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes, Schell's most recent books are, "Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangrila From the Himalayas To Hollywood," "Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders," and "The China Reader: The Reform Years." He has also served as a television commentator for several network news programs, worked both as a correspondent and a consultant for a number BBC and PBS documentaries on China. Schell serves on the boards of Homelands Productions and Current Media. He is also a Senior Fellow at USC's Annenberg School for Communication's Center on Communication Leadership, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a participant in the World Economic Forum. The former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Schell is currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society.
|
