Orville Schell

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society and the former dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Far Eastern history, studied Chinese at Stanford University, was a student at National Taiwan University, and did his Ph.D. work at 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 is the author of numerous non-fiction works, including “The Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the 21st Century” and “My Old Home: A Novel of Exile.”