Schell paints a detailed picture of China - the enigmatic, once isolated country now wracked by continual radical change. From the 1989 demonstations in Tiananmen Square and the brutal crackdown that followed, to the country's rebirth as an economic powerhouse where almost anything can be bought but little of political significance can be said, Schell takes the reader inside China. He introduces extraordinary characters - students, workers, soldiers, intellectuals, labour leaders and pop stars - who acted out the drama of Tiananmen Square, who endured prison or exile and who persevere in the unfolding drama of economic and political development that has only recently thrust China headlong into a world of stock markets, entrepreneurs, millionaires and some day, perhaps, a greater measure of democracy.

Mandate of Heaven

Travel

Schell, Orville

Pictorial

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

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.

Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform

History

Asia

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Orville Schell's BROWN must surely be one of the most unusual books about a politician written in recent memory - but then, Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown is no ordinary politician. Schell has given us a marvelously entertaining portrait of an enigmatic personality who wraps himself in deliberate ambiguity, of an avowedly unpolitical figure who may one day be President, or who, in one of his odd swings of mood, may just abandon it all.

Brown

Random House]

The Town That Fought to Save Itself

Pantheon Books

In the People's Republic: An American's Firsthand View of Living and Working in China271 pp. A memoir of life in China by an American.Keywords: CHINA DESCRIPTION TRAVEL 1949 ASIA

In the People's Republic: An American's Firsthand View of Living and Working in China

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

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

A journalist and cattle rancher recounts the history of the use of antibiotics and hormones in livestock feed and details the potential risks involved in the consumption of such treated meat

Modern Meat

Science & Math

Technology

Random House, Inc.

Essays describe the contradictions of life in modern China, looks at the changes since Mao's death, and suggests what directions China will take in the future

TO GET RICH IS GLORIOS

Pantheon

An intriguing account of the reform movements and changes sweeping across China offers a close-up analysis of China's head-on collision with modern Western democracy, its implications and impact, and the basic contradictions underlying the reform movement

DISCOS AND DEMOCRACY

Modern China: The Making of a New Society, from 1839 to the Present

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