Category: In the Press

Mentions and quotes in the press.

Review of Weath and Power The Christian Science Monitor

In Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, Orville Schell and John Delury explain how, for more than a century and a half, Chinese leaders, writers, and activists have sought answers as to why China lags behind…

Book reviews: Wealth and Power by Schell and Delury The Scotsman

After that, China was dismembered, first by the European powers, then, more devastatingly, by Japan. Chinese troops expelled the Japanese, and the country was reunified more than 60 years ago. But it is determined to keep the memory of the…

China’s Return to Greatness: Marching Forward The Economist

MODERN China’s founding trauma came in 1842, when British troops pushed opium down the throats of a prostrate nation at the Treaty of Nanjing. Today this brutal military and diplomatic defeat is hailed in China for the way its darkness…

John Delury and Orville Schell: Modern China – The Creation of a Global Power World Affairs Council of Northern California

In the past few decades, China has experienced remarkable growth. It is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the G-20. It has the world’s largest standing army, the world’s second largest economy and has reduced…

The Secret Behind China’s Rapid Rise: Forum KQED

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…

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…