Category: In the Press

Mentions and quotes in the press.

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…

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…

How Jerry Brown ‘free ranges’ for advice | The Sacramento Bee

“He likes to sort of blue sky with people … just sort of see what’s cooking,” said Orville Schell, who wrote a book about Brown in 1978 and remains in contact with him. “I don’t know any other politician in…

China Earthquake Prompts Debate on Role of Volunteers | Wall Street Journal

“The ambiguity with which Chinese authorities have faced civil society has always been profound and, of late, more evident,” said Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. via China Earthquake Prompts Debate on Role of Volunteers…

The Conversation: America’s international broadcasters are losing the air wars | The Sacramento Bee

As Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, once put it: “While our media empires are melting away like the Himalayan glaciers, China’s are expanding.” via The Conversation: America’s international broadcasters are losing the…

If China Really Wants Peace, Then It Needs To Prove It | Business Insider

Nonetheless, the Chinese rise has also created unintended consequences that could further elevate hostilities in the region. “How can you keep it clean when you have always been a victim?” wonders Orville Schell. Minor confrontations with the Philippines and Vietnam…