Orville Schell, Contributor

Orville Schell is dean of the the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Schell has dedicated his professional career to reporting on and writing about Asia. Author of 14 books, nine of which are about China, he is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Granta, Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The China Quarterly, and The New York Review of Books. Schell has been the recipient of several writing fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Harvard/Stanford Shorenstein Award for Asian Journalism, Overseas Press Club of America’s Award for The Best Article on a Foreign Subject, a Mencken Award for the Best Feature and a Page One Award for the Best Investigative Story.

Schell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University, where he studied Far Eastern History. He studied at National Taiwan University as an exchange student in the 1960s, and completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in Chinese History. He has worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia and covered the war in Indochina as a journalist.

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Affiliations

Schell is currently dean of the the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Schell serves on the boards of:
Human Rights Watch
The Sundance Documentary Fund jury
Social Science Research Council

He is also a member of:
The Pacific Council
The Council on Foreign Relations

And a regular participant in the World Economic Forum at Davos

Publications

The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership’s Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People

By Orville Schell

Chicago’s South Side, 1946-1948 (Series in Contemporary Photography)

By Orville Schell (Foreword), Wayne Miller

The China Reader: The Reform Era (Vintage)

By Orville Schell and David Shambaugh

Mandate Of Heaven

By Orville Schell

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-LA from the Himalayas to Hollywood

By Orville Schell

Sahel: The End of the Road

By Orville Schell (Afterword), Sebastiao Salgado (Foreword)
$45.00

Now They Tell Us

By Orville Schell, Michael Massing
$9.95

“Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La From the Himalayas To Hollywood”
by Orville Schell

“The China Reader: The Reform Era”
by Orville Schell

“Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders”
by Orville Schell

Other Resources Online:

Orville Schell Online
PBS “Frontline”

Book Reviews:

NYTIMES Online, Books of the Times;
Sending ‘Liberal Media’ Truism to the Fact-Checker
by Orville Schell

NYTIMES Online, Books of the Times;
A Lonely Voice in China Is Critical on Rights and Reform
by Orville Schell