The
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Orville Schell
(1940 - )
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Recognized as one of the county's leading experts
on China, Orville Schell was born in New York City in 1940. He graduated
from Harvard with a degree in Far Eastern History and did Doctoral work
in Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley. He
has been a ship hand, a war correspondent, a rancher raising chemical-free
beef, a commentator on ABC, NBC, and CBS, and a consultant and correspondent
for documentaries on PBS's Frontline. He serves on the boards of
the Yale-China Association and Human Rights Watch and is a member of the
Pacific Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is currently the
Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California,
Berkeley. Orville Schell has written fourteen books, nine about China.
Works include: The China Reader (1967); Modern China: the Story
of a Revolution (1972); The Town That Fought To Save Itself
(1976); In the People's Republic (1977); Brown (1978); Watch
Out for the Foreign Guests: China Encounters the West (1980); Modern
Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm (1983); To
Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the l980's (1984); Discos and Democracy:
China in the Throes of Reform (1988); and Mandate of Heaven:
A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Technocrats, and Bohemians
Grasp for Power in China (1995). |
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