Orville Schell
Orville Schell | |
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Born | May 20, 1940 |
Pen name | Xia Wei (夏伟) |
Occupation | Writer, academic, and activist |
Nationality | American |
Education | Pomfret School |
Alma mater | Harvard University (AB) University of California, Berkeley (ABD) |
Subject | China |
Notable works | The China Reader |
Notable awards | Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship |
Relatives | Orville Hickok Schell, Jr. |
Website | |
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Orville Hickock Schell III (born May 20, 1940) is an American writer, academic, and activist. He is known for his works on China, and is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He previously served as dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Background and education
Schell's father Orville Hickok Schell, Jr., was a prominent lawyer who headed the
Schell attended
In 1964–65 Schell worked for the Ford Foundation in Jakarta, Indonesia. He then pursued Chinese studies at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a master's degree in 1967, becoming researcher for sociology and history professor Franz Schurmann (head of the school's Center for Chinese Studies) on a three-volume work, The China Reader (1967, Random House). Schell was named as a co-author, establishing him as a China scholar.
Schell continued his graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, reaching an
Journalism career
In 1969 Schell and Schurmann co-founded Pacific News Service (PNS) to create and distribute news and commentary from a broader spectrum of voices, especially viewpoints from abroad. The PNS was critical of the United States role in Indochina during the Vietnam War and supportive of establishing diplomatic relations with the PRC.
Before his 1974 departure for China, Schell had already published three books, The China Reader, Starting Over: A College Reader and Modern China: The Story of a Revolution.[4]
In 1975 Schell and his younger brother
.In 1980 Schell won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to research and write about the reliance on drugs in the U.S. meat industry.[5]
He has also been a co-producer for the
In 1992 Schell won an
Schell's selection as Dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism elicited an attack from right-wing radio talk show host, Michael Savage, who alleged the head of the search committee, sociology professor Troy Duster, had refused to interview him. Savage considered himself a qualified conservative journalist for the job, and claimed that Schell's appointment constituted political patronage, which is illegal under California's labor laws. The suit also argued that a political litmus test for the deanship illegally denied public employment and First Amendment rights to a conservative applicant. The lawsuit was dropped as having little merit and when all conservative applicants withdrew from consideration.[citation needed]
During his tenure Schell was responsible for the hirings of Christopher Hitchens, Michael Lewis, Cynthia Gorney, Michael Pollan, Louis Rossetto, Charles Ferguson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Mark Danner, Steve Wasserman, Stephen Talbot and Tom Engelhardt, among others.
In April 2006, Schell announced his intention to resign as dean.[7]
Schell is now the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York, which focuses on multimedia journalism, original research and public events to bring attention to areas of mutual interest to the United States and China. Since its inception, the Center has focused primarily on issues of energy and global climate change. Schell oversaw "The China Boom Project", "On Thinner Ice", a joint multimedia project with David Breashears's Glacier Research Imaging Project (GRIP) and MediaStorm, and a new policy effort to maximize American interest in response to investment from China.[8]
A frequent participant in the World Economic Forum, Schell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Climate Policy Initiative, GE's Eco Imagination Advisory Board and the Council on the Future of Media, which claims to be "championing a new global, independent news and information service whose role is to inform, educate and improve the state of the world-one that would take advantage of all platforms of content delivery from mobile to satellite and online to create a new global network".[9]
Schell is also a senior research scholar at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute.[10]
Farming career
Schell has criticized
Views on China
Schell first visited the
In 2004 Schell called China's Communist-Capitalist mix "Leninist capitalism".[15]
In an interview with
After Xi Jinping's ascension to power in 2013, Schell has become increasingly critical of China's authoritarian model of governance, and in 2020 wrote an essay about the "death of engagement" between the US and China.[17]
Publications
- The China Reader (with Franz Schurmann) (1967).
- Starting Over: A College Reader (1970) (with Frederick Crews).
- Modern China: The Story of a Revolution (with Joseph W. Esherick) (1972)
- Modern China: The Making of a New Society from 1839 to the Present (with Joseph W. Esherick) (1972)
- The Town That Fought to Save Itself (1976)
- In the People's Republic: An American's First-Hand View of Living and Working in China (1977)
- Brown (1978) (biography of California governor Jerry Brown)
- Orville Schell (1980). "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" China Encounters the West. ISBN 0-394-74899-9 – via Internet Archive.
- Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones, and the Pharmaceutical Farm(1984)
- To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the Eighties (1984)
- Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform (1988)
- Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future (1994)
- Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders (1995)
- Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood (2000)
- The China Reader: The Reform Years (co-edited with David Shambaugh) (1999)
- Empire: Impressions of China (2004)
- Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century (with John Delury) (2013)
- The Treacherous Silicon Triangle, Foreign Affairs, July 17, 2023 (co-authored with Larry Diamond and Jim Ellis)[18]
References
- ^ Hudson, Edward (19 June 1987). "ORVILLE SCHELL JR.,78, DIES; LAWYER AND BALLET CHAIRMAN". New York Times. p. D-16 (National). Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ UC Berkeley Journalism - Faculty - The journalism dean searches for intelligent life in the media Archived July 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 New York Post
- ^ "Orville Schell Bibliography". Archived from the original on 2009-12-20. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
- ^ "Orville Schell Curriculum Vitae". Archived from the original on 2010-09-09. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ "UC Berkeley Dean Resigns". Oakland Tribune. April 26, 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-18. [dead link]
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (September 26, 2006). "Journalist and China Expert to Head Center at Asia Society". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-26.
- ^ "Global Agenda 2009" (PDF). World Economic Forum. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-01. Retrieved 2010-03-05.
- ^ "Orville Schell | Weatherhead East Asian Institute". weai.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ Schell, Orville (moderator) (September 22–26, 2002). "Food and the Environment : The Costs, Benefits, and Consequences of Modern Food Production" (website and video archive). University of California, Berkeley (conference proceedings). Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- San Francisco Business Times. Archived from the originalon April 10, 2021. Retrieved 2007-01-18.
- ISBN 978-0-394-51890-9.
- ^ Paul Hollander (1983), Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, 1928–1978, Paperback Edition, New York: Harper & Row, Chapter 7, " The Pilgrimage to China: Old Dreams in a New Setting ", p. 328; Orville Schell (1977), In the People's Republic: An American's First-Hand View of Living and Working in China, New York: Random House, pp. vii-viii.
- ^ Schell, Orville (2004-06-15). "China's Political Time Warp". Project Syndicate. Archived from the original on July 13, 2010. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
- National Public Radio.
- ^ Schell, Orville (June 7, 2020). "The Death of Engagement". The Wire China.
- ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
External links
- China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term? - Summary of talk[permanent dead link], mp3, and video, at the Long Now Foundation, September 2006
- About the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations
- Schell archive from The New York Review of Books
- Homepage of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations
- World Economic Forum Global Agenda 2009
- Orville Schell's Curriculum Vitae
- Appearances on C-SPAN