Category: In the Press

Mentions and quotes in the press.

China flexes its muscles in dispute with Vietnam | The Economic Times

“I find it quite alarming, because it was not so many years ago that there was a relatively tranquil relationship between China and its neighbors,” said Orville Schell, a China scholar who is the director of the Center on US-China…

Orville Schell on the rise of China | Minnesota Public Radio News

Orville Schell speaks at the Commonwealth Club of California about his new book “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century.” He observes that the rapidly transforming country has shifted from “imperial doormat to global economic powerhouse.” He…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Humiliation spurs dreams of new glories – OP-ED Global Times

China’s modern history has seen a long succession of national humiliations, with the nation repeatedly losing wars to foreign invaders. But how has this sense of humiliation spurred Chinese efforts to modernize more recently? Did chaotic and devastating periods such…