Dan Drollette Jr
Orville Schell is a noted China expert, and director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York City. A former professor (and dean) at UC-Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, and was later an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s. Schell worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the early 70s—when Mao Zedong was still running the country. Schell is the author of many books about Asia, and a contributor to many publications, including The Atlantic Monthly,
The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Schell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the recipient of many prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.In 1992, Schell won an Emmy Award for producing a documentary about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre; in 1997, he won a George Peabody Award for his production of the Frontline documentary “Gate of Heavenly Peace.”
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