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Orville Schell

Orville Schell covered China for The New Yorker in the nineteen-seventies and eighties. He is the Arthur Ross Director at the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City and the co-author, with John Delury, of the 2013 book “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century.”

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5 picks · 1977–1984

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THE NEW OPEN DOOR
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about China and Deng Xiaoping's open door policy, which the Chinese leader initiated in the late 1970s. This new policy has …

II-A KIND OF COMMONS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock to prevent disease & promote growth. This use has become so widespread that …

I-A KIND OF COMMONS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock, adopted by farmers in the early fifties not only to prevent and treat diseases …

THE WIND OF WANTING TO GO IT ALONE
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about China. The Chinese Communist Party has declared Mao Zedong's political line defunct. Under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, who…

CHINA I-PEKING AND SHANGHAI
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about China. Recently, the writer and 23 other Americans visited China for 8 weeks of travel and work. In Peking, the group stayed in …