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Orville Schell
Reporting on China since 1970.
Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director 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
My Old Home
Wealth and Power
The ironic tale of Western fascination with Tibet is well told by journalist Orville Schell, who has visited Tibet extensively and includes himself among those Americans who have "spun...a fabulous skein of fantasy around this distant, unknown land."
Jonathan Mirsky, The New York Times Book Review
Virtual Tibet
"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."
Winston Lord,
former US Ambassador to China
"Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.”
Evan Osnos,
China Correspondent, The New Yorker
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