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Follow on Google News | "Is It Necessary and Possible to Collaborate With China?"The public is invited to attend an Ambassadors' Roundtable series breakfast presentation by Orville Schell, PhD on "Is it Necessary and Possible to Collaborate with China?". This event will take place at the Stamford Yacht Club on May 11, 2016.
Orville Schell is currently the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. Schell has 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. In addition, he is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of fourteen books, nine of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are, Virtual Tibet, The China Reader: The Reform Years, and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders. He is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Granta, Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The China Quarterly, and The New York Review of Books. "Despite meetings between Presidents Xi and Obama, and a yearly Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the level of discouragement and pessimism, especially among China specialists, about the future of Chinese-American relations is at its highest since the bloodshed of 1989." - Orville Schell Schell 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 PhD (Abd) at University of California, Berkeley in Chinese History. The cost for the dinner and presentation is free for AR series members and $105 for the general public. The event will start at 6:15 p.m. with a cash bar. Dinner will begin at 7 p.m. and will be followed by the presentation. Reservations and advance payment are required. Space is limited. Please contact the World Affairs Forum at 203-356-0340 or E-mail: info@worldaffairsforum.org to reserve. The World Affairs Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to expanding understanding of global affairs and America's role in the world. The Forum is an affiliate of the World Affairs Councils of America. End
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