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Orville Schell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.

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Book Cover for: Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control, Josh Chin

Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

Josh Chin
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China's surveillance state discussed by WSJ writers Josh Chin and Liza Lin with Chinafile's Jessica Batke: https://t.co/AIDyHAGhoN

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Book Cover for: The Elements of the China Challenge: November 2020, State Department

The Elements of the China Challenge: November 2020

State Department
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Here's an interesting fix on the State Department Policy Planning Staff's recent report,"The Elements of the China Challenge." The slogan "Containment Without Isolation" may undergo a rebirth! https://t.co/6ZV0TcdRZF

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Book Cover for: My Old Home: A Novel of Exile, Orville Schell

My Old Home: A Novel of Exile

Orville Schell
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Tomorrow opera director Peter Sellars and writer Zha Jianying will help plumb the China enigma through a discussion of the classical music in the novel, "My Old Home." https://calperformances.org/related-events/my-old-home-a-novel-of-exile-orville-schell-and-peter-sellars-in-conversation-with-musical-interludes/

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Book Cover for: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present, John Pomfret

The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present

John Pomfret
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John Pomfret, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, offers this 成语: 此地無銀三百兩, “Here there's no 300 taels of silver.” The story: Zhang San buries some silver under a sign, "There's no 300 taels of silver here!"

Paperback, 2017

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