Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Schell was born in New York City, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s, and earned a Ph.D. (Abd) at University of California, Berkeley in Chinese History. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-70s.

Schell is the author of fourteen books, nine of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are, Virtual Tibet, The China Reader: The Reform Years, and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders. He has written widely for many magazine and newspapers,including The New Yorker, Time, Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic, Harpers, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Wired, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, the China Quarterly, and the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schell was a Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and the recipient of many prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.

Education

1968 Ph.D (Abd) University of California, Berkeley, Department of History (Chinese History).

1967 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Department of History (Chinese History).

1964 B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University, Department of History. (Far Eastern History).

1961-1962 National Taiwan University, Department of History (Foreign Student, non-degree program).

1960 Stanford University, intensive Chinese language summer program.

Fellowships and Awards

2005 Northern California Book Awards, The Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award.

2003 The Shorenstein Journalism Award for Covering Asia – John F. Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Stanford University’s Asia-Pacific Research Center

2001 Honorary Doctorate, Dominican University.

1997 George Peabody Award: Producer of the WGBH-Frontline documentary, "The Gate of Heavenly Peace."

1995 Senior Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Columbia University. Fellow, East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

1993 Overseas Press Club of American Award: Best magazine article on a foreign subject in 1992 for "China Plays The Market," The Nation, December 14, 1992. (Co-author)

- Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Silver Baton award in broadcast journalism for CBS "60 Minutes" report "Made In China." (Program consultant)

1992 Emmy Award for "60 Minutes" report "Made In China."(Program consultant)

1989-1990 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

- Mencken Award for "Atlantic Monthly" article on Fang Lizhi

1986 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

1985 - News Paper Guild of New York: Page One Award for "New Yorker" series.

- Bay Area Book Reviewers Association: Award in Non-fiction.

1983 MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

1981 Alicia Patterson Foundation: Journalism fellowship.

1967-1968 - Center for Chinese Studies, University of California: Foreign Area Training Fellowship.

1964-1966 - Ford Foundation, Overseas Development Training Associate Fellowship, Jakarta, Indonesia.

1961-1962 - Ministry of Education, Republic of China, Foreign Student Fellowship.

Professional Experience

2007-present Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society

2007-present Senior Fellow, Center on Communication Leadership, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California.

2000-present Editor, Project Syndicate China column.

1996-2007 Dean, the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.

1997 Correspondent for WGBH-Frontline documentary "Dreams of Tibet."

1997 Consultant for CBC "60 Minutes" program, "Hong Kong."

1995-1997 Moderator of Voice of America's program "Issues and Perspectives on China."

1996 Producer WGBH-TV Boston "Frontline" documentary "Gate of Heavenly Peace" and editorial consultant for Frontline documentary for "Smoke In Your Eye."

1995 Consultant: CBC News.

1994 Correspondent: WGBH-TV Boston "Frontline" documentary, "Red Flag Over Tibet."

1991 Consultant: CBS "60 Minutes" program "Made In China."

1990 Regents' Lecturer: Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.

1989 Vice Chairman: Human Rights Watch/Asia.

1989 Executive Committee member: Human Rights Watch

1989 Consultant: ABC Nightline.

1989 Commentator: NBC Nightly News.

1988-1989 President: China Symposium `89.

1987 Consultant: NBC Nightly News.

1987 Visiting Distinguished Professor: Chico State University.

1986 Research Associate: Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1984 Co-Producer: WGBH-TV Boston Frontline documentary film: "A Chinese Affair."

1975-1985 "New Yorker Magazine:" China coverage.

1970-1971 Founder and Editor-in-Chief: Pacific News Service.

1968-1971 Co-Director: The Bay Area Institute.

1967 Co-coordinator: Committee of Concerned Asian scholars.

Board and Professional Society Affiliations

Board Member - Current Media (2005-present)

Board Member - Homelands Productions

Board Member - World Affairs Council of San Francisco (1999-present)

Media Council - The Davos World Economic Forum (1998-present)

Jury - The Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award (1997-present)

Member - Council on Foreign Relations (1992-present)

Member - National Committee on U.S. China Relations. (1984-present)

Board Member - The Social Science Research Council (2001-2007).

Jury - Sundance Documentary Film Fund (2001-2006)

Jury - The Dan David Prize (2003)

Jury - The Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. (1998-2000)

Advisory Board - The New Perspectives Fund, The Capital Group (1996-2003)

Board Member - The Yale-China Association (1992-2003)

Jury - The National Magazine Awards. (1998-2001)

Research Associate - Center For Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Consultant - Frontline and Frontline/World, WGBH-Boston.

Member - The Global Business Network (1985-2004)

Advisory Board - Center for Investigative Journalism.

Professional Memberships

Author's Guild

PEN

Empire: Impressions from China (photographs by James Whitlow Delano; texts by Orville Schell and Colin Jacobson) 5 Continents 2004

Tibet since 1950: Silence, Prison or Exile (essays by Orville Schell) Aperture, Human Rights Watch 2000

Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-la from the Himalayas to Hollywood Metropolitan Books 2000

The China reader: The Reform Era (Orville Schell and David Shambaugh) Vintage Books 1999

Mandate of Heaven : a New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future Simon & Schuster 1994

Discos and democracy: China in the Throes of Reform Pantheon Books 1988

To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the Eighties Pantheon Books 1985

Modern Meat Random House 1984

"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!": China Encounters the West Pantheon Books 1980

Brown Random House 1978

In the People's Republic: an American's First-Hand View of Living and Working in China Vintage Books 1977

The Town that Fought to Save Itself (with photographs by Ilka Hartmann) Pantheon Books 1976

The China reader (Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell) Random House 1967-1974

Modern China; the Making of a New Society, from 1839 to the Present (Orville Schell & Joseph Esherick) Random House 1972

Modern China: the Story of a Revolution (Orville Schell & Joseph Esherick) Knopf 1972

Starting Over: a College Reader (Frederic C. Crews & Orville Schell) Random House 1970

Dangerous Straits Frontline Editorial Consultant 2001

Smoke in the Eye Frontline Editorial Consultant 1996

The Gate of Heavenly Peace Frontline Producer 1995

Dreams of Tibet Frontline Host 1983

Red Flag of Tibet Frontline 1994

Chinese Prison Labor Camps 60 Minutes 1991

A Chinese Affair Frontline 1983

In the Year of the Pig Executive Producer 1968

• The Message from the Glaciers New York Review of Books May 27, 2010
• China: Defending its Core Interest in the World – Part I YaleGlobal April 5, 2010
• The Melting of America The Nation January 7, 2010
• China's Boom: The Dark Side in Photos New York Review of Books - Blog October 29, 2009
• China Reluctant to Lead YaleGlobal March 11, 2009
• A Fresh Start Time February 12, 2009
• China's Quest for Moral Authority The Nation ($) October 20, 2008
• The U.S. and China: Common Ground on the Environment Yale Enviroment360 August 18, 2008
• China: Humiliation & the Olympics New York Review of Books August 14, 2008
• China's Agony of Defeat Daily Beast July 25, 2008
• Clearing the Air With China The Washington Post April 15, 2007
• Nixon's Balancing Act The Washington Post February 25, 2007
• When China's unfinished business is history New York Times August 8, 2006
• Baghdad: The Besieged Press New York Review of Books April 6, 2006
• In The Twilight Zone Spiegel March 17, 2006
• Smothered in a Security Blacket Asia Times March 16, 2006
• Why the Media Failed Americans Asia Times July 16, 2004
• Unification Can Only Follow Democratization YaleGlobal March 19, 2004
• From Sands to Quagmire S.F. Chronicle March 31, 2003
• The War Debate, We must Not Do This Alone S.F. Chronicle October 11, 2002
• The Medium Is the Mess: What To Do About Broadcast News? S.F. Chronicle April 28, 2002
• Terry Gross of NPR Proves the Value of a Voice in the Dark New York Times December 30, 2001
• Why Won't Beijing Make Peace with the Dali Lama S.F. Chronicle June 24, 2001
• The Jiang Zemin Mystery New York Review of Books September 23, 1999
• China's New Spiritual Uprising Salon July 27, 1999
• Prisoner of Its Past Salon June 8, 1999
• Justifying J-School Salon January 22, 1999
• China's Spring New York Review of Books June 29, 1998
• David Tang: Chinese Puzzle Cigar Aficionado July 1, 1997
• Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao Atlantic Monthly December 1992
• Human Rights in China (translated) New York Review of Books June 14, 2990
• Keeping the Faith (translated) New York Review of Books December 21, 1989
• Letters from the Other China (translated) New York Review of Books July 20, 1989
• China's Andrei Sakharov Atlantic Monthly May 1988
• Free the Czechs (letter to the editor) New York Review of Books December 6, 1979
• Confessions of an 'Unreconstructed Capitalist-Roader' L.A. Times ($) February 4, 1979

Schell Interview About China Investment in U.S. Bloomberg's "Street Smarts" May 5, 2011

The Chinese Model The Real News May 14, 2011

An Amazing Moment in History Institute for New Economic Thinking

"Global China Summit" (photo gallery), Oct 10, 2011.

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