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Orville
Schell is Dean, Graduate School of Journalism at the University
of California, Berkeley. From his days as a student of Far Eastern
history at Harvard College, through his U.C. Berkeley master’s degree
in Chinese history, to his latest work on Hong Kong and Tibet, Orville
Schell has devoted virtually his whole professional life to reporting
on and writing about Asia. Author of 14 books - nine about China,
including Virtual Tibet, Mandate of Heaven, and Discos
and Democracy- Schell has also written widely about Asia for Wired,
The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Newsweek and
other national magazines.
He is the recipient of Guggenheim and
an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship and numerous writing prizes.
Dean Schell has also served as correspondent and consultant for several
PBS "Frontline" documentaries as well as an Emmy award-winning program
on China for CBS‚ "60 Minutes." He serves on the boards of the Yale-China
Association and Human Rights Watch and is a member of the Pacific
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China – Revolution and Reform
Orville Schell
Wednesday-Sunday February
6-10, 2002
Thurman J. White Forum Conference Center (OCCE)
University of Oklahoma campus
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Never
before in modern history has a so-called "socialist society" as
large as China tried to reform itself both economically and politically
under the aegis of the Communist party. In every other case, the
process of change in socialist bloc countries has led to the downfall
of the Marxist-Leninist political apparatus and to a complete
reformation of that country’s political and economic system. The
People's Republic of China alone is trying to effect such a complex
transition. Whether it succeeds or fails will have enormous consequence
not only for China’s 1.3 billion people, but also for the world
at large.
This seminar will concentrate
on what China's leaders have already achieved in this reform
process. We will try to delineate their goals, provide a description
of what remains to be done, and assess what obstructions may
still be in the way of completing this uncertain odyssey without
any upheavals which might throw China into chaos.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
The Chinese, Jasper
Becker, Free Press, 2001
Rivertown: Two Years on
the Yangtze, Peter Hessler, Harpercollins, 2001
The China Reader: The Reform
Era, David Shambaugh and Orville Schell, Vintage Books
Paperback , 1999.
Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy
of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders,
Orville Schell, Simon and Schuster, Touchstone Paperback, 1995.
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