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The Foreign Affairs InterviewBest Of: What Drives Putin and XiIn 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell about what drives Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin and how they are (and are not) like Mao and Stalin.
Xi and Putin loom over geopolitics in a way that few leaders have in decades. Not even Mao and Stalin drove global events the way Xi and Putin do today. Who they are, how they view the world, and what they want are some of the most important and pressing questions in foreign policy and international affairs.
Kotkin and Schell ar...
2025-08-071h 19
ChinaTalkMAGA-Mao Connections with Orville SchellWhat can Mao Zedong teach us about Donald Trump?
To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed the legendary sinologist Orville Schell, who visited China during the Cultural Revolution and is currently at the Asia Society.
We discuss…
Mao Zedong’s psychology and political style,
Similarities and differences between Mao and Trump,
How Mao-era traumas reverberate in modern China, including how the Cultural Revolution has influenced the Xi family,
How Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping survived the Cultural Revolution, and which of their tactics could be useful in modern America,
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2025-05-231h 18ChinaTalkMAGA-Mao Connections with Orville SchellWhat can Mao Zedong teach us about Donald Trump?
To find out, ChinaTalk interviewed the legendary sinologist Orville Schell, who visited China during the Cultural Revolution and is currently at the Asia Society.
We discuss…
Mao Zedong’s psychology and political style,
Similarities and differences between Mao and Trump,
How Mao-era traumas reverberate in modern China, including how the Cultural Revolution has influenced the Xi family,
How Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping survived the Cultural Revolution, and which of their tactics could be useful in modern America,
...
2025-05-231h 18
US and China Relations TrackerNavigating the Treacherous Terrain of U.S.-China Trade Tensions: Strategies for Global Economic StabilityIn recent years, the relationship between the United States and China has become increasingly complex and fraught with challenges, particularly in the realm of trade. Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, has shed light on the escalating trade war between these two global economic powerhouses. Schell observes that the trade tensions are a manifestation of the deeper strategic and economic competition emerging between the U.S. and China. The disputes have resulted in both countries imposing tariffs on each other’s goods, affecting a wide range of industries and pu...
2025-05-0502 min
Wenbin Fang's Podcast PlaylistFrom Mao to Xi Jinping: A Conversation with Orville Schell Podcast: Face-Off: The U.S. vs China (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: From Mao to Xi Jinping: A Conversation with Orville SchellPub date: 2025-04-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn a special bonus episode recorded live at the Asia Society, host Jane Perlez speaks with journalist and scholar Orville Schell about his 50 years covering Chinese leaders and their American counterparts. They attempt to answer the question: how did we get here?Recorded live at The Asia Socie...
2025-04-2559 min
Face-Off: The U.S. vs ChinaFrom Mao to Xi Jinping: A Conversation with Orville SchellIn a special bonus episode recorded live at the Asia Society, host Jane Perlez speaks with journalist and scholar Orville Schell about his 50 years covering Chinese leaders and their American counterparts. They attempt to answer the question: how did we get here?Recorded live at The Asia Society on April 8, 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2025-04-2459 min
Grey Matter with Michael KrasnyOrville Schell - China and Russia Linked in GrudgesTik Tok and data acquisition, scary topics on China up ahead. Michael Krasny featured leading Sinologist Orville Schell and began by asking Schell for his response to the Trump administration's imposed tariffs and their potential effects on a possible trade war, fentanyl out of China and U.S. China relations. Schell spoke of Xi Jinping's irrational actions and what appears to bind him and Putin together and Krasny asked Schell if he foresaw a role for Beijing brokering a peace between Russia and Ukraine. Krasny then proceeded to ask Schell about Tik Tok, data acquisition by China, Chinese surveillance...
2025-02-1257 min
Keep TalkingEpisode 137: Orville Schell - Will The Chinese People Ever Be Free?Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.------------Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting------------Keep Talking SubstackSpotifyApple PodcastsSocial media and all episodes------------Support via VenmoSupport on SubstackSupport on Patreon------------(00:00) Intro(01:00) Orville's entering China in the 1970s(07:10) Was was China like in the 1970...
2025-01-1058 min
The DivideWho will hold China accountable for its human rights abuses? (feat. Orville Schell)When diplomats at the United Nations pressed China to address allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Chinese state-run media launched a fervent counter-attack, accusing the US and EU of "politicizing and applying double standards to human rights issues."
In this episode, Mr. Orville Schell talks about China's historical relationship with nationalism, how Stanford University is finding itself in a legal battle with the Chinese Communist Party, and the possibilities of influencing China's human rights policies, as well as his latest book, "My Old Home." This novel, while a departure from his previous non-fiction works, continues to prov...
2024-09-2700 min
The DivideThe tangled US-China relations: when neither engagement nor isolation is the right answer (feat. Orville Schell)U.S.-China relations have cooled significantly in recent years, defying the expectations of U.S. foreign policy strategists since the 1970s, when there was a prevailing belief that engagement and trade would gradually bring the two countries closer and encourage China to become more open and less authoritarian. That didn't happen.
In this episode, historian Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, delves into the complexities of U.S.-China relations. He discusses the historical concept of engagement and explains why decades of diplomatic efforts an...
2024-09-2000 min
Peking Hotel with Liu HeReal Ideals and False Hopes: Seeing China in the Vietnam War — with Orville SchellArriving at Orville’s place takes you through a scenic drive on the Berkeley Hills. Quintessential to the Bay Area, driving on the steep, winding roads feels like the slow climbing of a rollercoaster. At the summit, glimpses of the Golden Gates Bridge peek through the misty clouds. On a clear day, the urban sprawl of San Francisco, Berkeley and Albany unfolds beneath you; even on a rainy day, the charming neighbourhoods with Berkeley Bungalows more than make up for the long drive from Palo Alto.Orville Schell will be familiar to our returning readers. We have fe...
2024-09-1055 min
Peking Hotel with Liu HeI Was Locked In A Cave On My First Trip to China — with Orville SchellWelcome back!My first piece on Orville’s experience in the 80s had good reader reception, many thanks to your support! This piece focuses on Orville's story in the 60s and 70s working on China. Orville Schell is the Director of Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society.In this one, you will hear about Orville’s grandfather who taught medicine in Changsha in late qing; his semi-activist mom; studying with John Fairbank at Harvard; drinking tea with Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei; locked in a cave by CCP officials on his first trip to Chin...
2024-07-0359 min
Peking Hotel with Liu HeDeng Xiaoping, Democracy Wall, and the Dialetics of China — with Orville SchellOrville Schell on his experience in China in the 1980s, a magical decade in recent history that brought hope, optimism, dynamism and endless possibilities in China, and ended with Tiananmen Massacre.The Peking Hotel podcast and newsletter are a bilingual online publication that takes you down memory lane of recent history in China, and narrates China’s reality through the personal tales of China experts. We present subjective, opinionated, and coloured views of veterans in the field based on their first-hand experience and direct observations. The project grew out of Leo’s research at Hoover Institution where he c...
2024-05-2539 min
White House ChronicleThe end of U.S.-China engagementWriter and scholar Orville Schell began his study of China well before President Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, ending 25 years of isolation between the United States and China, and resulting in establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1979. Schell discusses "the end of U.S.-China engagement" with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
2024-05-0327 min
GeoTech WarsInside Beijing with China Scholar Orville SchellIn this episode of GeoTech Wars, Kirt is joined by Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society. The conversation examines Xi Jinping's worldview and why China has shifted course after decades of economic growth driven by globalization.
2024-04-0224 min
Asia In-DepthThe United States, China, and the Future of the Global Order with Kishore Mahbubani and Orville SchellNEW YORK, March 21, 2024 — Asia Society Policy Institute, in partnership with Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, hosts a discussion on the U.S.-China relationship and how it impacts global trends. Speakers include Kishore Mahbubani, 2023-24 Schlager visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House; and Orville Schell, Arthur Ross director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. Rorry Daniels, managing director of Asia Society Policy Institute, moderates the conversation.Asia Inside Out brings together our team and special guests to take you beyond the latest policy headlines and prov...
2024-04-011h 10
Asia Inside OutThe United States, China, and the Future of the Global Order with Kishore Mahbubani and Orville SchellNEW YORK, March 21, 2024 — Asia Society Policy Institute, in partnership with Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, hosts a discussion on the U.S.-China relationship and how it impacts global trends. Speakers include Kishore Mahbubani, 2023-24 Schlager visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House; and Orville Schell, Arthur Ross director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. Rorry Daniels, managing director of Asia Society Policy Institute, moderates the conversation.Asia Inside Out brings together our team and special guests to take you beyond the latest policy headlines and prov...
2024-03-291h 10
Democracy IRLYear-End Review of Global Democracy with Larry DiamondLarry Diamond once again joins Francis Fukuyama for a year-end review to discuss the state of global democracy as 2023 draws to a close. Diamond also recounts his Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture, the 20th iteration of the annual lecture series named in honor of the famed political scientist and sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Munk School at the University of Toronto, and the Canadian Embassy.Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman...
2024-01-0553 min
GeopolcastThe dynamics of Geopolitics and China In this episode of Geopolcast, Elisabeth Braw, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, navigates the complex dynamics between Geopolitics and China with, Orville Schell, the Director of the Center on US & China Relations and, David Hoile, Global Head of Asset Research at WTW. We reflect on the journey China has taken since the 70’s and explore China’s ever-evolving Geopolitical landscape, understanding how worsening relations are impacting Western companies and the operational repercussions this is having organisations.
2023-12-1129 min
GeopolcastThe dynamics of Geopolitics and China In this episode of Geopolcast, Elisabeth Braw, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, navigates the complex dynamics between Geopolitics and China with, Orville Schell, the Director of the Center on US & China Relations and, David Hoile, Global Head of Asset Research at WTW. We reflect on the journey China has taken since the 70’s and explore China’s ever-evolving Geopolitical landscape, understanding how worsening relations are impacting Western companies and the operational repercussions this has on organisations. Disclaimer (US sites only) WTW offers insurance-related services through its appropriately licensed and authorised companies in each...
2023-11-1529 min
Background Briefing with Ian MastersNovember 12, 2023 - Lisa Graves | Orville Schell | James Van NostrandSenate Republicans Protect the Powerful From the Public | A Preview of the Biden/Xi Summit in San Francisco | Will the Saboteur Joe Manchin Deliver Biden a Fatal Blow?
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2023-11-121h 00
Berkeley TalksChinese activist Ai WeiWei on art, exile and politicsIn Berkeley Talks episode 181, renowned artist and human rights activist Ai WeiWei discusses art, exile and politics in a conversation with noted theater director and UCLA professor Peter Sellars and Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society and former dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.Ai, who grew up in northwest China under harsh conditions because of his poet father's exile, is openly critical of the Chinese government's stance on democracy and human rights. He is well-known for his provocative works, including his 2014-15 installation on San Francisco Ba...
2023-10-061h 29
The Final ServiceChina’s Dream of Global DominanceThe aftermath of the Chinese surveillance balloon saga reveals a growing diplomatic divide between the US and China. Where does this mistrust come from? In “Wealth and Power,” authors Orville Schell and John Delury argue that foreign humiliation over the past century and a half is the story that holds China together. They join host Ray Suarez to discuss China’s quest for global dominance. Guests: John Delury, US Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea Orville Schell, director of the Cent...
2023-08-2853 minThe Final ServiceChina’s Dream of Global DominanceThe aftermath of the Chinese surveillance balloon saga reveals a growing diplomatic divide between the US and China. Where does this mistrust come from? In “Wealth and Power,” authors Orville Schell and John Delury argue that foreign humiliation over the past century and a half is the story that holds China together. They join host Ray Suarez to discuss China’s quest for global dominance. Guests: John Delury, US Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea Orville Schell, director of the Cent...
2023-08-2853 minThe Foreign Affairs InterviewWhat Drives Putin and Xi (Part Two)Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin loom over geopolitics in a way that few leaders have in decades. Not even Mao and Stalin drove global events the way Xi and Putin do today. Who they are, how they view the world, and what they want are some of the most important and pressing questions in foreign policy and international affairs.
Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell are two of the best scholars to explore these issues. Kotkin is the author of seminal scholarship on Russia, the Soviet Union, and global history, including an acclaimed three-volume b...
2023-07-1352 minThe Foreign Affairs InterviewWhat Drives Putin and Xi (Part One)Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin loom over geopolitics in a way that few leaders have in decades. Not even Mao and Stalin drove global events the way Xi and Putin do today. Who they are, how they view the world, and what they want are some of the most important and pressing questions in foreign policy and international affairs.
Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell are two of the best scholars to explore these issues. Kotkin is the author of seminal scholarship on Russia, the Soviet Union, and global history, including an acclaimed three-volume b...
2023-06-3031 min
The Ezra Klein ShowFareed Zakaria on Where Russia’s War in Ukraine Stands — and Much MoreA lot about the world has changed since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. The war itself has brought a number of surprises, from the tenacity of Ukraine’s resistance to the limits of Western sanctions. Meanwhile, competition between the United States and China has escalated into something resembling a new Cold War, India just surpassed China as the most populous country in the world and countries representing about two-thirds of the world’s population have chosen not to align themselves with the U.S. position on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.Those shifts raise a number of important questions: Wher...
2023-06-021h 30Grey Matter with Michael KrasnyOrville Schell - The Enigma of XiIt seems that China is in the news every day. To dig in deeper on this issue, we met with Orville Schell - one of the world's foremost experts on China and US/Sino relations - to help us understand the Chinese perspective and to learn more about China's leader, Xi Jinping. We dove deep into China's radical successes, its challenges, its resilience, its leverage, its sense of grievance and victimization, its anti-Western diplomacy, and its troubling aspirations. It has become the strongest member of an autocratic block of nations positioned to resist liberal democracy throughout the world. Despite this...
2023-05-0957 min
Geografia em Meia HoraDescontruindo Dalai Lama e o Tibet🇨🇳☸ Desconstruindo Dalai Lama e o Tibet
💣💥🙏🏻 O Tibet é realmente aquele lugar idílico, fantasiado por hollywood e por muitos de nós ao longo da vida? O Dalai Lama é uma figura sacra e por isso, perfeita? O Budismo não tem suas incongruências bem como qualquer outra religião?
🎙️ Nesse episódio do G30 o Vitin (@vitingeo) trabalha com os seguintes tópicos:
✅ Desconstrução histórica sobre o Tibet enquanto lugar idílico
✅ Descontrução de Dalai Lama e do Budismo enquanto religão sem extremismo
✅ Análises sobre o avanço tibetano pós fuga de Dalai...
2023-04-1733 min
ChinaTalkSchell on The Long Arc of US-China and Long Reach of LeninismHow did Xi Jinping’s formative years influence how he views the world today? Veteran China scholar Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, looks back at decades of writing and working on China, weathering the cycles of the country opening up and shutting down and gives his two cents on what’s going on in Xi’s head.We also discuss— Why Mao Zedong is a better read than Xi— China’s reciprocity problem on the international stage— How US officials reacted to Tiananmen in a sec...
2023-04-141h 19ChinaTalkSchell on The Long Arc of US-China and Long Reach of LeninismHow did Xi Jinping’s formative years influence how he views the world today? Veteran China scholar Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, looks back at decades of writing and working on China, weathering the cycles of the country opening up and shutting down and gives his two cents on what’s going on in Xi’s head.We also discuss— Why Mao Zedong is a better read than Xi— China’s reciprocity problem on the international stage— How US officials reacted to Tiananmen in a sec...
2023-04-141h 19Democracy IRLYear-End Wrap-Up: The State of Global Democracy, with Larry DiamondAs 2022 comes to a close, Francis Fukuyama sits down with his CDDRL colleague and democracy expert Larry Diamond for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of global democracy and the year's dramatic political developments in China, Iran, and the United States.Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also a professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. His research focuses...
2022-12-161h 02
Sinica PodcastGrifter, chaos agent, or CCP spy? The New Yorker's Evan Osnos on Guo WenguiThis week on Sinica, Evan Osnos, staff writer for The New Yorker, joins hosts Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn to talk about his new piece on one of the most puzzling figures to come out of China: Guo Wengui, a.k.a. Miles Kwok, who took what he learned about dealing with power and money in China and applied those lessons to the U.S., insinuating himself with leading figures of the American right. Who is this mysterious man, and what is he really after? In an unscripted episode that will bring some listeners back to the grotty apartment i...
2022-10-2758 min
Christ Presbyterian Church | Old Hickory BlvdThe Original Chariots of Fire - Scott Sauls - July 10, 20222 Kings 2:1-14
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2022-07-0934 min
Jim Foster: Conversations On The CoastSchell and Delury: Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first CenturyIn "Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century," authors Orville Schell and John Delury write about China's resurgence on the world stage by examining several influential people from varied backgrounds that help bring about the modern China known today. This discussion took place on a 2013 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California.
2022-04-2422 min
WSJ Opinion: Free ExpressionOrville SchellWall Street Journal Editor at Large Gerry Baker speaks this week with author and scholar Orville Schell about whether China can put pressure on Russia to end the invasion of Ukraine and what effect it may have on Xi Jinping's own ambitions to forcibly reclaim Taiwan.
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2022-03-2933 min
The Kitchen Sisters PresentCoal + Ice: Visualizing the Climate CrisisCoal + Ice, a powerful global exhibition of photographs, videos, and immersive imagery that focuses on the climate crisis and provokes action is now on display in Washington DC through April 22, 2022.
Coal + Ice began in Beijing in 2011 with the unprecedented showing of images of Chinese coal miners taken by Chinese photographers. It has now now expanded to the work of 50 photographers from around the world, capturing images of the climate catastrophe as it unfolds around the globe.
Photographers and video artists include: Jimmy Chin, David Breashears, Song Chao, Camille Seaman, Gideon Mendel, Meredith Kohut, Jamey Stillings, Matt...
2022-03-1518 minDemocracy IRLLarry Diamond on Election Reform: An Existential Issue for American Democracy"The future health, if not survival, of American democracy is in danger in a way that it hasn't been in our lifetime," warns Larry Diamond, who sat down with Francis Fukuyama to discuss voting rights, the Electoral Count Act, and what reforms are needed to avert a future political catastrophe.Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also a professor by courtesy of...
2022-02-2324 min
Asia In-DepthUnderstanding Amy Tan'The Joy Luck Club' author discusses her painful past, her successful career, and everything in between with Orville Schell.
2022-01-2057 minAsia In-DepthOrville Schell's China JourneyThe director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations talks with Mary Kay Magistad about his six decades observing China, in an episode celebrating the launch of the third edition of Asia Society Magazine.
2021-12-0942 min
The Archive ProjectOrville Schell (Rebroadcast)In this episode, we’re going back into the archive all the way to 1997 to bring you journalist and author Orville Schell. Since 1970, Schell has been reporting widely on China for mainstream newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic, to more academic publications like China Quarterly and Foreign Affairs.
At the time of this lecture, Schell was at work on a book entitled Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood. That book and this talk are a kind of response to a cultural phenomenon at the time in...
2021-08-0953 min
Sons of SequoyahLife of the Party by Orville Schell - Foreign Affairs Discussion - Episode 95We discuss Orville Schell's literature review of three books about the Chinese Communist Party in Foreign Affairs ahead of the CCP's 100th anniversary.
2021-07-161h 09
Bay Area Book Festival PodcastWhen Everything Falls Apart, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China, Tolstoy, and the Power of Art, with Adam HochschildA journalist and renowned expert on China, Schell has penned his first novel, drawing on his knowledge of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution and on his conviction that art and love can outlive brutality. Joining him is MacArthur “genius” and award-winning writer Yiyun Li, who came of age during the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, emigrated to the U.S. at 23 as a young scientist, and eventually took the literary world by storm with her fiction, memoir and essays. This talk is moderated by Adam Hochschild.
2021-07-161h 04
China Stories[The Wire China] The road to BeijingFifty years ago, a hand-delivered letter, a clueless ping-pong team and a series of artful signalling efforts led to a U.S-China breakthrough and a new international order. With the two countries again at a nadir, would a reprise of Kissinger-esque negotiations work again?Read the article by Orville Schell: https://www.thewirechina.com/2021/07/11/the-road-to-beijing/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2021-07-1339 min
Korea and the World#85 - John DeluryChina is a key player on the Korean peninsula: it is not only North Korea’s sole ally, but has also become South Korea’s most important trading partner. Yet, the relationship it has with both Korean states is fraught with tension. Beijing’s hold over Pyongyang has been weakening under the rule of Kim Jong-Un, and Seoul’s alliance with Washington seems to be at odds with Chinese interests. To understand the relationships China has with both Koreas, we sat down with Professor John Delury. We talked about China’s place in the world and its evolution...
2021-07-0258 min
SinicaOrville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of ExileVeteran China scholar Orville Schell has written a dozen books on China, but his latest book — which Schell published at the age of 80 — is his first novel. My Old Home: A Novel of Exile is a bildungsroman that follows the life of Li Wende and his father, Li Shutong, from the early days of the Cultural Revolution to the tragedy of Tiananmen in 1989. This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Orville about the windows on China that nonfiction is unable to open but that fiction can; the challenges of writing a novel after a lifetime of publishing nonfiction; and continuity and c...
2021-05-2000 minSinica PodcastOrville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of ExileVeteran China scholar Orville Schell has written a dozen books on China, but his latest book — which Schell published at the age of 80 — is his first novel. My Old Home: A Novel of Exile is a bildungsroman that follows the life of Li Wende and his father, Li Shutong, from the early days of the Cultural Revolution to the tragedy of Tiananmen in 1989. This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Orville about the windows on China that nonfiction is unable to open but that fiction can; the challenges of writing a novel after a lifetime of publishing nonfiction; and conti...
2021-05-2049 min
Sinica Early AccessOrville Schell on his novel, My Old Home: A Novel of ExileVeteran China scholar Orville Schell has written a dozen books on China, but his latest book – which Schell published at the age of 80 – is his first novel. My Old Home: A Novel of Exile is a bildungsroman that follows the life of Li Wende and his father, Li Shutong, from the early days of the Cultural Revolution to the tragedy of Tiananmen in 1989. This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Orville about the windows on China that nonfiction is unable to open but that fiction can; the challenges of writing a novel after a lifetime of publishing nonfiction; and conti...
2021-05-1749 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – April 22, 2021: Cherilyn Parsons – Jason GraaeBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Cherilyn Parsons is the founder and Executive Director of the seventh annual Bay Area Book Festival, held digitally this year from May 1 through May 9, 2021. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
In this interview she presents highlights from this year’s festival, focusing in on writers such as Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, China expert Orville Schell, Joyce Carol Oates, KPFA’s Davey D, and others. She also discusses the future of th...
2021-04-2259 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskyCherilyn Parsons, The Bay Area Book Festival 2021Cherilyn Parsons is the founder and Executive Director of the seventh annual Bay Area Book Festival, held digitally this year from May 1 through May 9, 2021. She is interviewed by Richard Wolinsky.
In this interview she presents highlights from this year’s festival, focusing in on writers such as Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, China expert Orville Schell, Joyce Carol Oates, KPFA’s Davey D, and others. She also discusses the future of the Festival, which promises to be both live and streamed in coming years.
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2021-04-1856 min
The Korea SocietyKorea and Sino-US RelationsApril 1, 2021 - Stimson Center senior fellow and China Program director Yun Sun and Asia Society Arthur Ross director of the Center for US-China Relations Orville Schell join senior director Stephen Noerper to discuss where Korea sits relative to China and US priorities. They explore China policy in the new US administration, alliances and expectations, and prospects for improvements or further deterioration in Sino-US ties. This program is made possible thanks to the support of the Korea Foundation. For more information, please visit the link below: https://www.koreasociety.org/policy-and-corporate-programs/item/1477-korea-and-sino-us-relations
2021-04-0158 minChina Stories[The Wire China] The soul of Lu XunThose looking for China’s national spirit won’t find it in Xi Jinping’s writing.Read the article by Orville Schell: https://www.thewirechina.com/2021/03/14/the-soul-of-lu-xun/Narrated by Kaiser Kuo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
2021-03-1628 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – March 11, 2021: Jane Smiley – Jeanette WintersonBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Jane Smiley, whose latest novel is “Perestroika in Paris,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky.
The author of sixteen adult fiction novels, two short story collections, five non-fiction works plus several young adult novels, Jane Smiley is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “A Thousand Acres,” and more recently The Last Hundred Years Trilogy. She current teaches creative writing.
“Perestroika in Paris” is a departure from her other works. Clearly an adult nov...
2021-03-1159 minThe Archive ProjectOrville SchellIn this episode, we’re going back into the archive all the way to 1997 to bring you journalist and author Orville Schell. Since 1970, Schell has been reporting widely on China for mainstream newspapers and magazines like the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic, to more academic publications like China Quarterly and Foreign Affairs.
At the time of this lecture, Schell was at work on a book entitled Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood. That book and this talk are a kind of response to a cultural phenomenon at the time in...
2021-03-0153 minBay Area Book Festival PodcastPower of Protest: Lessons from Hong Kong After a tumultuous year of protest, Hong Kong’s streets are quiet again following the adoption of the national security law. Join four experts for this indispensable analysis of the protest movement and its significance for freedom globally: Hong Kong-based lawyer and writer Antony Dapiran; Jeffrey Wasserstrom, one of America’s leading China specialists; and the Financial Times’ Nicolle Liu, who reported from the streets throughout the protests. Conversation moderated by Orville Schell and Arthur Ross.
2020-11-241h 10
Barbarians at the GateChina's New YouthIn this episode, Jeremiah and David catch up with writer, editor, and journalist Alec Ash, to discuss the new US edition of his 2016 book Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China. Alec’s book is an intimate portrait of six diverse members of China’s “post-80s” generation, tracing their lives’ trajectory in the context of China’s turbulent and unpredictable economic modernization process. Orville Schell called the book “…a fascinating mosaic that gives us a wonderfully vivid sense of what it’s like to grow up today in the People’s Republic of China.”
With the themes of the book as...
2020-10-0143 minAsia In-DepthKevin Rudd and Orville Schell on Hong Kong's Pivotal YearTwo of the world's great experts on China discuss the implications of a new National Security Law for Hong Kong's future — and China's.
2020-09-1151 min
Hidden ForcesThe Death of Engagement: America’s New Cold War with China | Orville SchellIn Episode 149 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society about the implications of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's monumental speech at the Nixon Library, the history of engagement with China’s Communist Party, and what a New Cold War with China will mean for the future of peace and security. Dr. Schell’s career as a China scholar spans the entire arch of US-Sino relations since Nixon’s fateful trip to the Middle Kingdom in 1972 and the opening up of China to the wo...
2020-08-031h 03
Chris Riback's NewsletterNew Spike(Click audio player above to listen)6 Minutes or Less: Can America Run a Fair Election?This newsletter-only feature will be available only to paid subscribers: I ask a thought leader or expert to educate/enlighten/explain an issue via audio in 6 Minutes or Less. Issue: Following the latest voting disaster this week in Georgia’s primary – broken machines, inadequate poll workers, 8-hour lines, voters who simply gave up and left – the question of whether we can run fair elections has again been raised. Guest: Rick Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and...
2020-06-1406 min
Innovation Files: Where Tech Meets Public PolicyThe Post-COVID China Challenge, With James McGregorThe COVID crisis has exposed new vulnerabilities in U.S. supply chains, as well generated even more distrust of the Chinese government. At the same time, China is doubling down its “Made in China, 2025” ambitions to be the global technology leader. How will these developments affect U.S. technology competitiveness? What should the next administration do vis-à-vis U.S.-China trade relations? Rob and Jackie discuss these issues with James McGregor, Chairman of APCO Worldwide’s greater China region and a leading expert on China and Chinese economic policy.Mentioned in this episode:Books by James M...
2020-05-1127 minAsia In-DepthOrville Schell on 20 Years of U.S.-China RelationsLongtime China expert Orville Schell parses the evolution of Sino-American ties through the lens of two presidential summits: Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in 2017.
2019-12-1940 min
Asia In-DepthOrville Schell on 20 Years of U.S.-China RelationsLongtime China expert Orville Schell parses the evolution of Sino-American ties through the lens of two presidential summits: Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton in 1998, and Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in 2017.
2019-12-1940 minSinica PodcastIs China the Enemy? Featuring Ezra Vogel and Orville SchellThe Sinica Podcast this week features an exclusive recording of a China Institute event in New York on September 17 that sought to answer this question: How can the United States live with a rising China, an ideologically different country that is home to one-fifth of humanity? Joe Kahn, the managing editor of the New York Times and the paper’s former Beijing bureau chief, moderates the discussion with Ezra Vogel, the eminent Harvard University professor and author, and Orville Schell, author and the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society.What to...
2019-10-031h 15Sinica Early AccessIs China the Enemy? Featuring Ezra Vogel and Orville SchellThe Sinica Podcast this week features an exclusive recording of a China Institute event in New York on September 17 that sought to answer this question: How can the United States live with a rising China, an ideologically different country that is home to one-fifth of humanity? Joe Kahn, managing editor of the New York Times and the paper’s former Beijing bureau chief, moderates the discussion with Ezra Vogel, the eminent Harvard University professor and author, and Orville Schell, author and director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. See Privacy Policy at...
2019-10-011h 15
Sinica PodcastWealth and Power: Intellectuals in ChinaThis week, while Kaiser is vacationing on the Carolina coast, we are running a March 2014 interview with Orville Schell and David Moser. Orville is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York and formerly served as dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The discussion in this episode centers on the book co-authored by Schell and John Delury, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century, and the role of select members of the Chinese intelligentsia in the formation of modern China. What to lis...
2019-08-091h 05
Sinica Early AccessWealth and Power: Intellectuals in ChinaThis week, while Kaiser is vacationing on the Carolina coast, we are running a March 2014 interview with Orville Schell and David Moser. The discussion in this episode centers on the book co-authored by Schell and John Delury, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century, and the role of select members of Chinese intelligentsia in the formation of modern China. This discussion provides a window to understand how much views of China’s relationship with the rest of the world have changed significantly since the interview aired five years ago, as well as some reflection and forecasting that...
2019-08-051h 04
Deep Dish on Global AffairsChina's Blockbuster Influence in Hollywood - Feb. 21, 2019The 91st Academy Awards take place on Sunday in Los Angeles, but international markets, led by China, have eclipsed the domestic market in importance for the US movie industry, rewriting the rules about what kinds of films get made. On this week’s Deep Dish podcast, Lynda Obst, producer of Sleepless in Seattle, Contact, Interstellar, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and Orville Schell of the Asia Society join Brian Hanson to discuss how China is changing the US box office.
2019-02-2126 min
Deep Dish on Global AffairsChina's Blockbuster Influence in HollywoodThe 91st Academy Awards take place on Sunday in Los Angeles, but international markets, led by China, have eclipsed the domestic market in importance for the US movie industry, rewriting the rules about what kinds of films get made. On this week’s Deep Dish podcast, Lynda Obst, producer of Sleepless in Seattle, Contact, Interstellar, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and Orville Schell of the Asia Society join Brian Hanson to discuss how China is changing the US box office.
2019-02-2126 min
This Week in BusinessJack Ma Leaving AlibabaAlibaba's Chairman, Jack Ma, announced last week that he was stepping down as head of Chinese e-commerce giant. His successor will be Daniel Zhang, who is credited with the development of “Singles Day”, the largest 1-day retail shopping event in the world. Host Dan Loney talks with David Hsu, Professor of Management at the Wharton School, and Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations, to discuss the implications of this changing of the guard on Knowledge@Wharton. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2018-09-2622 min
Asia AbridgedWhy China Could Win a Trade WarIn this episode of Asia Abridged, Wendy Cutler and Orville Schell tell us why, contrary to President Trump's assertions, Beijing is well-positioned to compete in a trade conflict with the United States.
2018-06-2808 minSinica PodcastWhy China and North Korea are not as close as you think: Ma Zhao and John Delury talk historyThe dominant narrative in the U.S. about China’s relationship with the small northeastern neighbor is relentlessly one-sided. For decades, American officials have referenced Mao Zedong’s famous (though slightly mistranslated) description that North Korea and China are as close as “lips and teeth.” This perception has continued to recent times, such as when President Donald Trump insisted in July last year that if only China put a “heavy move” on the country, it could “end this nonsense once and for all!” But could it? What is the relationship, really, between China and North Korea, and how has it changed in recent...
2018-04-061h 03Sinica PodcastThe Chinese Communist Party’s refusal to reconcile with its past, explained by Orville Schell“Can a society which has not...come to terms with its own past go on to have a successful future, or do the sins of the past somehow...come back to haunt it and reexpress themselves in some mutant form?” This is a question that the seasoned historian and scholar of China, Orville Schell, has been thinking and publishing academic articles about in recent years, and is now writing a book on. Schell has stated that "nowhere is history more relevant to the future than in China, a nation that has for millennia seen its destiny inextricably connected to the dynast...
2018-03-2955 minSinica Early AccessOrville Schell on the CCP's relationship with historyThis week Kaiser hosts solo as Jeremy is on holiday. Our guest is Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Chair of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York, and the topic is the Chinese Communist Party’s relationship with history: How it controls historical inquiry, manipulates historical knowledge, and even erases historical remembrance.
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2018-03-2755 min
Reinvent PodcastFuture of Sharing: Booming Growth, Bike-Sharing, and Big Brother: the Sharing Economy in ChinaOrville Schell, veteran reporter and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, has covered China for decades and recently accompanied President Trump to Asia as a Vanity Fair correspondent. Trump loves to be pandered to, Schell pointed out, and cares more about whether he’s “winning” the leader of a foreign country than advancing the national interests of the United States. Despite the aggressive and often antagonistic remarks that Trump made about China while on the campaign, the Chinese government has treated Trump in a more strategic and less reactionary way. They apprec...
2017-11-2900 min
Reinvent PodcastBooming Growth, Bike-Sharing, and Big Brother: the Sharing Economy in ChinaVeteran reporter and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society Orville Schell has covered China for decades, and recently accompanied President Trump to Asia as a Vanity Fair correspondent. Trump loves to be pandered to, Schell pointed out, and cares more about whether he's "winning" the leader of a foreign country than advancing the national interests of the United States.
2017-11-2900 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow should we assess engagement with China? With Orville SchellThe U.S. has maintained a policy of engagement with the People’s Republic of China since Richard Nixon normalized relations with Mao Zedong in 1972. But how is 'engagement' actually understood in Washington and Beijing? And has engagement changed under the new Trump administration? Orville Schell is Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
2017-09-2121 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow should we assess engagement with China? With Orville SchellThe U.S. has maintained a policy of engagement with the People’s Republic of China since Richard Nixon normalized relations with Mao Zedong in 1972. But how is 'engagement' actually understood in Washington and Beijing? And has engagement changed under the new Trump administration?
Orville Schell is Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York.
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
2017-09-2121 min
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesHow should we assess engagement with China? With Orville SchellThe U.S. has maintained a policy of engagement with the People’s Republic of China since Richard Nixon normalized relations with Mao Zedong in 1972. But how is 'engagement' actually understood in Washington and Beijing? And has engagement changed under the new Trump administration?
Orville Schell is Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York.
The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
2017-09-2121 minAsia AbridgedWill Change Come to China?Though the cult of Mao Zedong has long subsided, there has been speculation that a personality cult is being crafted around Chinese President Xi Jinping, which comes amidst a sweeping crackdown on dissent. But is the public buying it? In this episode, former New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief Ed Wong speaks with the Center on U.S.-China Relations' Orville Schell about China’s “adaptive authoritarianism," the prospects for political change, and relations with the United States in the age of Trump.
2017-08-1714 min
Carnegie Council PodcastsGlobal Ethics Forum Preview: China's Role in the World with Orville SchellNext time on Global Ethics Forum, Asia Society's Orville Schell discusses liberalism's decline, China-U.S. relations, and Xi Jinping's worldview. In this excerpt, Schell talks with journalist Stephanie Sy about his own background and how that has shaped his thinking on human rights in China.
2017-05-1103 min
Democracy Now!Orville Schell on U.S.-China Relations as Trump Meets Xi JinpingPart two of our discussion with Orville Schell about today’s meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping today at Trump’s Florida resort Mar-a-Lago.
2017-04-0615 min
DiffusionDiffusionHost Sarwar Kashmeri speaks with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, and Susan Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center and Research Professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, as President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepare to meet at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. Schell and Shirk are co-chairs of the Asia Society report "U.S. Policy Toward China: Recommendations for a New Administration."
2017-04-0515 min
American Politics (Audio)How Should The US Approach China? -- Winston Lord Orville Schell and Susan ShirkWith a new administration in the White House, maintaining what is perhaps the country’s most crucial bilateral relationship remains a critical issue. Members of a high-level Task Force on U.S.-China Policy discuss their expert recommendations for the Trump administration. Speakers include Winston Lord, Former U.S. Ambassador to China and Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society; and Susan L. Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center and Research Professor at the School of Global Policy an...
2017-03-0655 minAmerican PoliticsHow Should The US Approach China? -- Winston Lord Orville Schell and Susan ShirkWith a new administration in the White House, maintaining what is perhaps the country’s most crucial bilateral relationship remains a critical issue. Members of a high-level Task Force on U.S.-China Policy discuss their expert recommendations for the Trump administration. Speakers include Winston Lord, Former U.S. Ambassador to China and Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society; and Susan L. Shirk, Chair of the 21st Century China Center and Research Professor at the School of Global Policy an...
2017-03-0655 min
MERICS China PodcastChina Dispute: Nationalism and the ideological battle for China’s future (EN)February 28, 2017China’s official media like to criticize “hostile foreign forces” and “Western values” that purportedly undermine the country. Western institutions are equally singled out for their “inefficiency” in dealing with problems and crises. But do these arguments resonate with the Chinese public? Is there rising anti-Western nationalism in China? Those questions were tackled by three eminent China experts, Susan Shirk, Orville Schell and David Bandurski, on February 22nd at the MERICS “China Dispute” in Berlin. Nationalism was a handy tool for the Chinese government to rally support, they said, but liberal voices had not disappeared – despite stringent controls and strict censorshi...
2017-02-2739 min
China 21China 21: Trump & China - Bipartisan Policy Recommendations with Susan Shirk and Winston LordTwo China policy veterans: Prof. Susan Shirk and Amb. Winston Lord are members of a high-level bipartisan task force that launched a report on US Policy Toward China, with detailed policy recommendations for the Trump administration. They offer an overview of the comprehensive list of issues covered in the report, and discuss the priorities that the 45th President must address in his first year, such as the North Korean nuclear threat, climate change leadership, Asia Pacific alliances, and trade and civil society reciprocity.
The task force comprises a group of 20 prominent China specialists that include policymakers, scholars, and trade representatives...
2017-02-2743 min
China 21Trump & China: Bipartisan Policy Recommendations - Susan Shirk and Winston LordTwo China policy veterans: Prof. Susan Shirk and Amb. Winston Lord are members of a high-level bipartisan task force that launched a report on US Policy Toward China, with detailed policy recommendations for the Trump administration. They offer an overview of the comprehensive list of issues covered in the report, and discuss the priorities that 45th President must address in his first year, such as the North Korean nuclear threat, climate change leadership, Asia Pacific alliances, and trade and civil society reciprocity.
The task force comprises a group of 20 prominent China specialists that include policymakers, scholars, and...
2017-02-1343 minKorea and the World#59 - John DeluryNorth Korea and China have a special relationship. The two countries are each other’s only military alliance partners, and China is commonly seen as shielding North Korea from the discontent of the international community. But while this relationship started as an ideological alliance and was forged in blood during the Korean War, it has seemingly become of a more pragmatic nature in recent years.
In order to understand the history of Sino-North Korean relations better, we sat down with Professor John Delury. We talked about the premodern interactions between China and the Korean peninsula and the in...
2016-02-0848 min
Climate OneGreening AsiaAs the Asian economy booms, its people have paid the price in polluted air and water. Can business and government solve Asia’s environmental problems? Mark Clifford, Author, The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency (Columbia University Press, 2015) Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society in New York Stella Li, Senior Vice President, BYD Company Ltd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2016-01-221h 00
Philosophy Talk Starters52: PropagandaMore at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/propaganda
Allegedly independent radio commentators taking money to spout the government line! Fake news reports being produced and distributed by the Administration to promote a partisan agenda! Journalists abandoning neutrality and objectivity to become cheerleaders for a political doctrine! Where can this happen? Right here in the good old U.S. of A. propaganda is all around us! But what exactly is propaganda? How can it be distinguished from legitimate news and information? Can democracy survive where propaganda flourishes? John and Ken take a fresh look at propaganda with Orville Schell, Orville Schell, Dean...
2015-10-2505 minClimate OneGreening AsiaAs the Asian economy booms, its people have paid the price in polluted air and water. Can business and government solve Asia’s environmental problems? Mark Clifford, Author, The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency (Columbia University Press, 2015) Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society in New York Stella Li, Senior Vice President, BYD Company Ltd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2015-08-071h 00
Open Society Foundations PodcastChina and Tiananmen 25 Years On: Does Authoritarianism Pay?This panel explores the significance of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, and whether China’s rise has broken the long-assumed tie between economic development and an open society. Speakers: Rowena Xiaoqing He, Xiaorong Li, Aryeh Neier, Orville Schell. (Recorded: Jun 11, 2014)
2014-10-141h 33
Popup ChineseSinica - Wealth and Power: Intellectuals in ChinaThis week Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by David Moser and Orville Schell. While long-time listeners will of course know of David Moser as one of our favorite resident sinologists, if you haven't also heard of Orville Schell we think you should have. Currently director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society, and previously an academic sinologist with an outstanding list of publications on Chinese politics and society, Orville has most recently authored Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century.Up for discussion: recent developments at ChinaFile (what...
2014-03-071h 04
Free Forum with Terrence McNallyFree Forum Q&A - ORVILLE SCHELL and JOHN DELURY, Authors of WEALTH AND POWER: China's Long March to the 21st CenturySome estimate China will surpass the US to become the leading economic superpower by 2016. On the other hand, July 19th Paul Krugman wrote, "China is in big trouble. ...The country's whole way of doing business, the economic system that has driven three decades of incredible growth, has reached its limits. You could say that the Chinese model is about to hit its Great Wall..."This week's guests, ORVILLE SCHELL and JOHN DELURY, have both devoted a lot of time to studying and writing about China, including co-authoring the new book, WEALTH AND POWER: China's long March to the 21...
2013-08-0654 min
PRI's The World Aug 1, 2012Is China Getting Bad Press at the London Games?Orville Schell, a long-time China observer, notices that the country has been receiving a lot of bad press partly because of its bravado.
2012-08-0104 min
Talk to MeThe Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from BurmaWhile diplomats and academics met at the General Assembly of the United Nations on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, the Asia Society hosted "Voices from Burma," an event honoring the stories of Burmese refugees and political prisoners.
Actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, actor Kathryn Grody, writers Amitav Ghosh and Deborah Eisenberg, and former political prisoner Law Eh Soe read from Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime. Veteran journalist, educator, and current Director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell opened and closed the event. T...
2011-10-2423 min
Talk to MeThe Asia Society Presents Oral Histories from BurmaWhile diplomats and academics met at the General Assembly of the United Nations on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, the Asia Society hosted "Voices from Burma," an event honoring the stories of Burmese refugees and political prisoners.
Actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, actor Kathryn Grody, writers Amitav Ghosh and Deborah Eisenberg, and former political prisoner Law Eh Soe read from Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime. Veteran journalist, educator, and current Director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell opened and closed the event.
2011-10-2423 min
Long NowOrville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?### Giant contradictions
“China is the most unresolved nation of consequence in the world,” Orville Schell began. It is defined by its massive contradictions. And by its massiveness— China’s population is estimated to be 1.25 to 1.3 billion; the margin of error in the estimate is greater than the population of France. It has 160 cities with a population over one million (the US has 49). It has the world’s largest standing army.
No society in the world has more millennia in its history, and for most of that history China looked back. Then in the 20th century the old dynastic cycles were replaced b...
2006-09-231h 28