18 Facts About Orville Schell

Orville Schell is currently Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.

Orville Schell previously served as dean of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

Orville Schell III is the older brother of writer Jonathan Schell.

Orville Schell left Harvard in 1960 to study Chinese at Stanford University.

Orville Schell then returned to Harvard and took Asian history, culture and politics courses under John Fairbank and Edwin Reischauer, and completed his bachelor's degree in 1964.

Orville Schell then pursued Chinese studies at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a master's degree in 1967, becoming researcher for sociology and history professor Franz Schurmann on a three-volume work, The China Reader.

Orville Schell was named as a co-author, establishing him as a China scholar.

Orville Schell continued his graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, reaching an all but dissertation stage.

Orville Schell has served as a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic.

Orville Schell has written widely for many other magazine and newspapers, including The New Yorker, Time magazine, Harper's, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, Wired, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, the China Quarterly, and The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

In 1980 Orville Schell won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to research and write about the reliance on drugs in the US meat industry.

Orville Schell has been a co-producer for the Public Broadcasting Service production center WGBH-TV in Boston, NBC Nightly News, CBS's 60 Minutes, and helped produce Peter Jennings's specials at ABC Television.

In 1992 Schell won an Emmy Award and an Alfred I duPont Award - Columbia University Silver Baton for producing 60 Minutess Made in China, a documentary about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

In 1997, Orville Schell won a George Peabody Award for his production of Frontlines documentary "Gate of Heavenly Peace".

Savage considered himself a qualified conservative journalist for the job, and claimed that Orville Schell's appointment constituted political patronage, which is illegal under California's labor laws.

Orville Schell oversaw "The China Boom Project", "On Thinner Ice", a joint multimedia project with David Breashears's Glacier Research Imaging Project and MediaStorm, and a new policy effort to maximize American interest in response to investment from China.

Orville Schell is a senior research scholar at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Orville Schell first visited the People's Republic of China in 1974, during the last years of Mao Zedong.