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    "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!"

    China Encounters the West

    Author Orville Schell
    Ebook
    Knopf | Pantheon
    On sale Oct 19, 2011 | 208 Pages | 9780307800510
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    This vivid, prophetic book on China’s magnetic attraction to the West is the perfect introduction to China in the eighties.
    © Brigitte Lacombe
    ORVILLE SCHELL is the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. From 1996 to 2007 he was the dean of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has written ten nonfiction books on China and contributed to many publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Review of Books. He is also an Emmy Award-winning producer for PBS, NBC Nightly News, and 60 Minutes. He divides his time between New York City and Berkeley, California. View titles by Orville Schell
    “Deft reporting.”
    —John K. Fairbanks, The New York Review of Books
     
    “Full of observations that are worth a thousand glossies on the new New China.”
    —Time
     
    “Lively, engrossing, informative.”
    —The Wall Street Journal
     
    “Schell is very good at this kind of reporting, which requires an eye as selective as it is sharp.”
    —Newsweek
     
    “Of all the books about China to appear in the last three years [this] stands with the very best.”
    —The Chicago Sun Times
     
    “Offers more to reflect on than do many much heavier tomes.”
    —Business Week
     
    “This short book is one of the most arresting of the spate of volumes to appear on China and the Chinese in recent years.”
    —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Star
     
    “No American writer catches the poignancy of the social encounter between Chinese and Americans as well as Orville Schell.”
    —Ross Terrill

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    This vivid, prophetic book on China’s magnetic attraction to the West is the perfect introduction to China in the eighties.

    Author

    © Brigitte Lacombe
    ORVILLE SCHELL is the director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society. From 1996 to 2007 he was the dean of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has written ten nonfiction books on China and contributed to many publications, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Review of Books. He is also an Emmy Award-winning producer for PBS, NBC Nightly News, and 60 Minutes. He divides his time between New York City and Berkeley, California. View titles by Orville Schell

    Praise

    “Deft reporting.”
    —John K. Fairbanks, The New York Review of Books
     
    “Full of observations that are worth a thousand glossies on the new New China.”
    —Time
     
    “Lively, engrossing, informative.”
    —The Wall Street Journal
     
    “Schell is very good at this kind of reporting, which requires an eye as selective as it is sharp.”
    —Newsweek
     
    “Of all the books about China to appear in the last three years [this] stands with the very best.”
    —The Chicago Sun Times
     
    “Offers more to reflect on than do many much heavier tomes.”
    —Business Week
     
    “This short book is one of the most arresting of the spate of volumes to appear on China and the Chinese in recent years.”
    —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Star
     
    “No American writer catches the poignancy of the social encounter between Chinese and Americans as well as Orville Schell.”
    —Ross Terrill

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