"Watch out for the foreign guests!": China encounters the West

by Orville Schell

Watch Out for the Foreign China Encounters the West by Orville Schell

Genres: China, History

178 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Zee · Rating 4 out of 5]

The cliché title belies an entertaining and frequently deep read.