Orville Schell
Reporting on China since 1970.
Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Vice President of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Orville Schell's Latest Releases
Inside China's Secret Prisons
My Old Home
Wealth and Power
It is both sweeping and specific, authoritative and lively, sympathetic and critical, offering the perspective of both the hedgehog and the fox. The hardest challenge in writing about China, or finding things to read about it, is perceiving significant patterns while remaining aware of the chaos and contradictions. Orville Schell and John Delury meet that challenge in exemplary form. I only wish that they'd written the book years ago, so that (along with other readers) I could have been taking advantage of its insights all along.
James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic
"What he has done, admirably, is to peer deeply into the Tibet fantasies of Hollywood groupies, baseball-cap mantras and, above all, films."
Jonathan Mirsky,
The New York Times Book Review
Praise
"Schell is an elegant craftsman, renowned scholar, and a virtuoso. The result is a splendid mosaic which deeply moves and informs the reader, evoking both the distinct and the universal."
Amb. Winston Lord,
former U.S. Ambassador to China
"Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.”
Evan Osnos,
China Correspondent, The New Yorker
