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    Orville Schell
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    Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US-China Relations and vice president at the Asia Society in New York City. He graduated from Harvard University in Far Eastern history; studied Chinese at Stanford and National Taiwan University; and did his PhD work at UC Berkeley in Chinese history. He has written several books about China.

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Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US-China Relations and vice president at the Asia Society in New York City and also former dean at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Schell graduated from Harvard University in Far Eastern history; studied Chinese at Stanford and National Taiwan University; and did his PhD work at UC Berkeley in Chinese history. After working for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, he covered the war in Indochina and has been in and out of China since the mid-1970s. He has written more than twenty books, including one novel, My Old Home: A Novel of Exile (Pantheon, 2021), and many works of nonfiction, including Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the 21st Century (with John Delury, Random House, 2013) and Inside China’s Secret Prisons: An Undercover Exposé and its Lasting Legacy (Columbia University Press, 2026).

Schell has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Smith Richardson Foundation grant. He is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award and a Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism. He is a fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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