To Get Rich Is Glorious

by Orville Schell

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

Genres: China, Nonfiction

227 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 12, 1984

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

[Tom · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you want to learn all about the Great Wall Hotel in Beijing, this is your book!