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What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics
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Andras Szanto (Editor), Orville Schell (Introduction by)
A passionate, thought-provoking, sometimes incendiary look at the role of propaganda in America today.Propaganda, manipulation, spin, control. It has ever been thus - or has it? On the eve of the 60th anniversary of George Orwell's classic essay on propaganda, "Politics and the English Language", a group of prominent writers have been invited to ...
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Modern meat
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The Tiananmen Papers
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Liang Zhang, Orville Schell (Afterword by), Professor Andrew J Nathan (Editor)
On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these events came to pass from behind the scenes. The ...
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Republican China: nationalism, war and the rise of communism 1911-1949
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Franz Schurmann, Orville Schell
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The Tiananmen Papers
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Professor Andrew J Nathan (Editor), Perry Link (Editor), Orville Schell (Afterword by)
The history of the student movement in China that led to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is told through documents purportedly transcribed by the pseudonymous author Zhang Liang--a Communist party member with access. The documents are arranged chronologically to tell the story of the events, and they purportedly reveal the inner workings of the ...
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Mandate of heaven : a new generation of entrepreneurs, dissidents, Bohemians and technocrats lays claim to China's future
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The forces released by the Chinese dissident student movement have not been completely suppressed, despite the brutal crackdown that followed the Tiananmen Square massacre. In China a new generation is coming to power, taking over from the gerontacracy which has characterized the Chinese government for so long. Comprised of technocrats and ...
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Discos and Democracy
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Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform
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In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.
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Tibet Since 1950: Silence, Prison or Exile
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Steven Marshall (Text by), Orville Schell (Text by), Mickey Spiegel (Contributions by)
Through photographs, history, personal interviews, and stories, a group that investigates human rights abuses examines at the impact of Chinese political repression on Tibetan lives. Steve Marshall and Orville Schell contribute essays. 80 color and duotone photos.
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Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood
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A China expert writes about the Tibet that he has visited and studied and about the Tibet that has captured the imagination of Hollywood. He visits the set of the film SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.
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Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories
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Melanie Light (Photographer), Ken Light (Photographer), Orville Schell (Foreword by)
Coal is still king in much of Appalachia, yet the heritage and history of the people who enabled the United States to become an economic superpower in the Industrial age are slipping away. This remarkable book presents arresting black and white photographs and powerful oral histories that chronicle the legacy of coalmining in southern West ...
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Sahel: The End of the Road
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Sebastiao Salgado, Orville Schell (Foreword by), Eduardo H Galeano (Afterword by)
In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado ...
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Fate! Luck! Chance!: Amy Tan, Stewart Wallace, and the Making of the Bonesetter's Daughter Opera
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Ken Smith, Orville Schell (Foreword by)
Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The ?Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan's best-selling novel into a pioneering opera which debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own words captured by Ken Smith Amy Tan and composer Stewart Wallace describe an incredible journey that took them to China where local ...
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Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders
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America's foremost chronicler of contemporary China brilliantly illuminates the new power structure, economic initiatives, and cultural changes that have transformed China since the Tianamen Square massacre of 1989. "A rich portrait, capturing a fascinating and perhaps fateful moment in China's long, turbulent history".--Arnold R. Isaacs, San ...
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In the People's Republic: An American's First-Hand View of Living and Working in China
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To Get Rich is Glorious
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Communist China : revolutionary reconstruction and international confrontation 1949 to the present
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Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival
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Melvyn C Goldstein (Editor), Professor Matthew T Kapstein (Editor), Orville Schell (Foreword by)
Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most ...
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The China Reader: The Reform Era
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Orville Schell (Editor), David L Shambaugh (Editor)
Current Affairs/Asian StudiesPerhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For the countrys 1.3 billion citizens, changes have been ...
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Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!: China Encounters the West
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To Get Rich is Glorios
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Imperial China : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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The town that fought to save itself
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Empire: Impressions from China
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James Whitlow Delano (Photographer), Orville Schell, Colin Jacobson
The people of China are changing the face of their country with tremendous tenacity, and often with their bare hands. Sometimes, it seems as if not a single plot of ground remains unturned or unproductive. The changes are so rapid and so prolific that the photographer finds himself constantly a step behind, chasing memories. The ancient rhythms of ...
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