Orville Schell

Orville Schell appears in the following:

30 Issues | The 'Manic' History Between the U.S. and China

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

America's relationship with China has been – and continues to be – fraught with confusing and often competitive dynamics. Hear an audio history of the push and pull.

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U.S. Tackles Tensions Between Japan & China

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

President Barack Obama lands in Tokyo today, the first stop on his week-long trip through Southeast Asia. At the top of his agenda are the rising tensions between Japan and China.

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China’s Long March to the 21st Century

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

China specialists Orville Schell and John Delury explain how China, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, managed to emerge on the world stage with hyper-development and wealth creation. Their book Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century examines the lives of 11 influential officials, writers, activists, and leaders whose contributions helped create modern China.

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Soft Power

Friday, August 08, 2008

China’s government has a strategy of using “soft power” to improve the country’s image –- promoting the arts, building language schools abroad, and, of course, remaking Beijing itself for the Olympics. But it’s a strategy with some pitfalls. Kurt talks with Orville Schell, a journalist and scholar ...

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Soft Power

Friday, November 16, 2007

China’s government has a strategy of using “soft power” to improve the country’s image –- promoting the arts, building language schools abroad, and, of course, remaking Beijing itself for the 2008 Olympics. But it’s a strategy with some pitfalls. Kurt talks with Orville Schell, a journalist and ...

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Rev. Moon buys UPI; Digital Divide; Statistics; Jewish Forward; Tibet & Tinseltown; John Stossel; 90210; Battlefield Earth

Friday, May 19, 2000

The Worst Movie Ever Made? Battlefield Earth and the reviewer who loved it --OTM asks her why. Hollywood 90210 says 'later; Reverend Moon buys UPI; and Helen Thomas says goodbye.

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Starr Report Drops; McGwire Mania; China Detains Journalists; New TV Season; Dawson’s Creek

Sunday, September 13, 1998

The Starr Report creates a feeding frenzy. Did the government publish pornography on the Internet? Should the president resign? What are children seeing and hearing?

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CNN & Time Retract; Wrongful Conviction; Internet Mergers; First Amendment; Blockbusters; Cincinnati Enquirer vs. Chiquita

Thursday, July 02, 1998

Oops, We Goofed: CNN and Time retract their reports about the U.S. using nerve gas in Laos. And the Cincinnati Enquirer and Gannett apologize for a report on a hometown corporation.

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Hong Kong, China & a Free Press; Covering gays; Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune

Sunday, July 27, 1997

How the Versace murder coverage represented a change in how the media represented gay people?

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