Evaluating China’s Influence in the U.S.
A 200-page report published by the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, titled, “Chinese...
Orville Schell
Why China Pretends to be a Democracy
Following the recent U.S. airstrikes on Syria, Chinese state media denounced the move by President...
What Would Trump’s China Policy Look Like?
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has famously spoken a lot about China. With his...
China’s Treatment of Foreign Journalists Examined
At a roundtable event held by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Wednesday,...
In Search of the Real China
For Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post’s John Pomfret writes a lengthy review of My First...
How the US and China Learned to Live With Each Other
At The Atlantic, Matt Schiavenza surveys the dynamic 60-year relationship between Beijing and...
Beijing Listens to the People. What Does That Mean?
At The Washington Post last week, Simon Denyer reported on the expansion of Beijing’s efforts to gather data on public opinion, both online and through surveys: [… T]he government is trying to understand public opinion on...
A Rising China Needs a New National Story
Orville Schell and John Delury’s new book, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, focuses on 11 influential Chinese thinkers, from 19th Century scholar Wei Yuan to imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu...
China’s Rejuvenation: Wealth & Power, But Not Yet Respect
In an excerpt from their new book, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, Orville Schell and John Delury trace China’s dream of national rejuvenation from the hopes of 19th Century...
The Post 80s Generation—Are the Kids All Right?
At ChinaFile, Sun Yunfan, Orville Schell and Damien Ma discuss the gap between members of China’s post-80s generation and their parents, based on a recent article by James Palmer that was featured on CDT last week. Sun...
Jookin’ on the Great Wall
Jookin’ is a style of street dance that originated in Memphis, Tennessee, and has been perfected by a young dancer from Memphis named Charles Riley, nicknamed Lil Buck. Last year, Lil Buck was invited to join a cultural...
U.S.-China Tensions: What Must Kerry Do?
In the latest installment of China File’s Conversations series, Elizabeth Economy, Andrew J. Nathan and Orville Schell respond to Nina Hachigian’s recommendations to new U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. In a...
Rule of the Princelings
Cairo Review has published an issue dedicated to China. The lead story, by Cheng Li, looks at the rise of princelings among China’s incoming rulers and what it means for the future of Chinese politics: In the wake of the...
Chen Guangcheng Speaks from New York
Chen Guangcheng, who arrived in New York on Saturday, greeted a cheering crowd outside New York University with a short speech. From NTDTV, via Shanghaiist: From the Associated Press: “I believe that no matter how...
When China and the West Meet, Who Bows Deeper?
in the Atlantic, Orville Schell uses a recent performance in Beijing by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and actress Meryl Streep to illustrate a subtle power play between China and the U.S. which has persisted for hundreds of years and which...
To Get Rich Is Apocryphal
Christian Science Monitor joins in the recent frenzy of debunking misattributed quotations with ten political misquotes, from Sarah Palin’s “I can see Russia from my house” to John F Kennedy’s “I am...
Orville Schell: China: Defending its Core Interest in the World – Part I
Yale Global has posted the first in a two-part series, by Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society’s Center on US China Relations, looking at U.S.-China relations: China has shown increasing intransigence...
Orville Schell: In China vs Google, Google Resembles a Country
Thomas Crampton interviewed Orville Schell, Director of the Asia Society’s Center on US China Relations, at the World Economic Forum in Davos about Google in China: One key issue in the confrontation, Schell said, is that...
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