Orville Schell: 4 books
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful...
Discos and Democracy
China in the Throes of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.
The China Reader
The Reform Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Current Affairs/Asian Studies
Perhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For...
"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!"
China Encounters the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
This vivid, prophetic book on China’s magnetic attraction to the West is the perfect introduction to China in the eighties.