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Bibliography

Books

• "Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from The Himalayas To Hollywood," 2000, Holt/Metropolitan Books.



• "The China Reader: The Reform Years," Co-edited with David Shambaugh, Vintage Books, l999.



• "Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Technocrats, and Bohemians Grasp for Power in China," Simon & Schuster, New York, l994, Touchstone Paperbacks, l995.



• "Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform," Pantheon Books, New York, l988(Paperback: Anchor Doubleday l989.)



• "To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the l980's," Pantheon Books, New York, l984(Paperback: New American Library l985.)



• "Modern Meat: Antibiotics, Hormones and the Pharmaceutical Farm," Random House, New York, l983(Paperback: Vintage l984.)



• "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests: China Encounters the West," Pantheon Books, New York, l980(Paperback: Pantheon l981.)



• "Brown," Random House, New York, l978.



• "In the People's Republic," Random House, New York, l976.(Paperback: Vintage l977.)



• "The Town That Fought To Save Itself," Pantheon, 1976.



• "Modern China: the Story of a Revolution," Alfred AKnopf, New York, l972.



• "Starting Over: A College Reader," Co-authored with Frederick Crews, Random House, l970.



• "The China Reader," (3 volumes, Co-authored with Franz Schurmann), Random House, New York, l967.



• "Wang Ching-wei: China's Third Path," Honors Thesis, Harvard College, l964.

Book Introductions, Contributions To Edited Volumes, and Translations

• Nathan, Andrew; Link, Perry; and Schell, Orville, "The Tiananmen Papers" Public Affairs Press, 2001.



• Miller, Wayne, "Southside: Chicago in The Forties," University of California Press, 2000(Preface).



• "Tibet Since 1950, Aperture Books and Human Rights Watch, 2000(Essay).



• Goldstein, Melvyn and Kapstein, Matthew eds., "Buddhism In Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity," University of California, l997 (Preface.)



• Lattimore, Owen, "High Tartary," Kodansha America, l994, (Introduction.)



• Goldman, Merle & Cohen, Paul, eds."Fairbank Remembered," Harvard University Press, l992(Chapter.)



• "The Guitars of Danny Ferrington," Harper-Collins, 1992(Introduction.)



• Fang Lizhi, "Breaking Down The Great Wall: Writings On Science, Culture, and Democracy In China," Transby James HWilliams, Alfred AKnopf, New York, l991(Introduction)



• Kelly, Bastian and Aiello eds., "The Anguish of Tibet," Paralax Press, Berkeley, l991(Chapter)



• "Children of the Dragon; The Story of Tiananmen Square," Macmillan, New York, l990(Introductions and prefaces by John KFairbank, Orville Schell, Andrew Nathan, and Jonathan Spence.)



• George Hicks, ed., "The Broken Mirror: China After Tiananmen," Longman, London, l990(Chapter)



• Barme, Geremie, and Minford, John, "Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience," Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, l989(Introduction)



• Turnley, David, and Turnley, Peter, "Beijing Spring," Stuart, Tabori and Chang, New York, l989(Introduction)



• Riboud, Marc, "Visions of China," Pantheon Books, New York, l981(Introduction)



• Terrill, Ross, ed., "The China Difference," Harper and Row, New York, l979(Chapter)



• "Who We Are," Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, l969(Chapter)

Articles

• "How Big Media Missed the Big Story," Newsweek, July 19. 2002.
  
  
• "The Medium is the Mess: What to do about Broadcast News?," San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2002.
  
  
• "Gross National Happiness: The World Wide Web and Cable Televisions Meets the World Wrestling Federation in Bhutan," Red Herring, January 14, 2002.
  
  

"Terry Gross of NPR Proves the Value of a Voice in the Dark," New York Times, December 30, 2001.


• "Broadcast Media's Finest Hour," Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2001.



• "Message For the Media," San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, September 23, 2001.



• "The Flailing Giant," Washington Post Book Review, August 24, 2001.



• "Under the Spell of a Culture Opposite to the West," The New York Times, June 17, 2001.



• "Hearst, Man and Mogul: Going Beyond The Myths," The New York Times, June 28, 2000.



• "Chinese Puzzle," the San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2001.



• "Reading Between The Lies," Kyoto Journal, No44, Spring, 2000.



• "Buddhism Comes to Hollywood," San Francisco Examiner, April 4, 2000



• "Searching for the Dalai Lama," The Nation, April 3, 2000.



• "Flights From Lhasa," Tricycle, Winter, 2000.



• "Straight Up: Klaus Schwab, Mastermind of the World Economic Forum and Its Davos Confab," Wired, December, 1999.



• "Shenzhen," Time Magazine, October 1, 1999.



• "The Jiang Zemin Mystery," The New York Review of Books, September 23, l999.



• The Rise Of The Falun Gong," Salon.com, August, 1999



• "Prisoner of Its Pat," Salon.com, July 8, 1999.



• ."Once A Shangri-La Where China Now Dominates," New York Times, Sunday Arts and Leisure, May 9,1999.



• "Can Business Reporting Become A Positive New Force In Foreign News Coverage?" Nieman Reports, Spring, 1999.



• "Empire Builder," San Francisco Examiner Magazine, May 2, l999.



• "A Galaxy of Myth, Money and Kids," The New York Times, Arts and Leisure, March 21, l999.



• "Apologia Pro Mea Sua," Salon.com, February 8, l999.



• "Second Sightings: Norway," New York Times Sophisticated Traveller, September 13, l998.



• "Clinton In China," Newsweek, July 6,l998.



• "Orville Schell In China," San Francisco Examiner Series, June 21st, 25th, 28th and July 5th.



• "Starting To Feel The Pinch," Newsweek, June 29, l998.



• "Tibetan Crisis Is Wake-Up Call,"San Jose Mercury News Perspectives, May 24, l998.



• "Virtual Tibet: A Journey Into Cognitive Dissonance," Harper's Magazine, April, l998



• "China So Near: The Photography of Mark Riboud," San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine, March 29, l998.



• "The Rape of Nanking," New York Times Book Review, December 14, l997.



• "Li Po," Time Magazine, December 14, l997.



• "Between The Image and Reality," Tricycle, Winter, l997.



• "China By Way of Kafka," The World & I, October l997.



• "Breakthrough Books," Lingua Franca, September, l997.



• "Special Report on Hong Kong: Sad Symbols," Newsweek, July 14, l997.



• "The Hidden Hand," Newsweek, July 7, l997.



• "What To Think About China", New York Times Book Review, June 29, l997.



• "China's Tradition of Dissent," Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 29, l997.



• "The China Syndrome," San Francisco Examiner Magazine, June 29, l997.



• "David Tang," Cigar Aficionado, July/August l997.



• "The Coming of Mao Zedong Chic," Newsweek, May 19, l997.



• "The Rights of An Exotic Tribe: North Korea," Newsweek International, May 5, l997.



• "The Shanghainese: The Birth of Treaty Port Chic," Newsweek International, May, l997.



• "Vietnam: A Battlefield May Become a Theme Park, But Memories Die Hard," The New York Times Travel, April 20, l997.



• "The Legacy of Deng Xiaoping," Microsoft Encarta, April, l997.



• "Suspicions In the East and Confusion In The West," The New York Times, March 11, l997.



• "Deng's Revolution," Newsweek, May 3, l997



• "Self Censorship In Hong Kong," Media Sudies Journal,Fall, l996.



• "Hong Kong Voices," World Business, September/October 1996.



• "In Memoriam: Don Terner," San Fransisco Examiner Magazine, August 4, l996.



• "Letter From Pyongyang: In the Land of the Dear Leader," Harpers Magazine, July l996.



• "Beijing Scissorhands," Salon - Internet, July 1, l996



• "Trying To Erase History," Washington Post Outlook, June 2, l996.



• "Resistance and Reform In Tibet," Book Review, China Quarterly, Spring, l996.



• "Dire Straits," The New Yorker, March 25, l996.



• "China's Bumpy Ride On the Information Highway," Microsoft Encarta EncyclopediaSpring,l996.



• "How To Talk To China," The Nation, February 19, l995.



• "Unheavenly Kingdom," New York Times Sunday Book Review, February 4, l996.



• "Shanghai's Shame," Washington Post Outlook, January 6,l996.



• "Death By Default," Los Angeles Times Viewpoint, January 6, l996.



• "Shanghai Triad," Premiere Magazine, January, 1996.



• "The Panchen Lama's Re-Reincarnation," The New Yorker, December 17, l995.



• "The China Syndrome," The New Yorker, October 9, l995.



• "Tea For Two: For A Taste of Hong Kong, A Sample Blend of British and Chinese Traditions," Travel Holiday Magazine, November l995.



• "Bluster From Beijing," The Washington Post, Opinion Page, August 13,l995.



• "China: End of An Era," The Nation, July 17, l995.



• "Harry Wu's Journey," The New Yorker, July 17, l995.



• "Maoism V.SThe Market in the Media," The Freedom Forum Media Studies Journal, Spring l995.



• "Shanghai Daze," Los Angeles Times Magazine, June 5, l995.



• "The Strange Ordeal of Owen Lattimore," Washington Post Magazine, April 16, l995.



• "Laos Wants You," Travel Holiday Magazine, February, l995.



• "Dragons and Dungeons: China's Security and Intelligence Establishment," China Quarterly, Fall,l994.



• "Mao's Little Black Book," review of "The Private Life of Chairman Mao," Washington Post Book World, October 9, l994.



• "Letter From China: `To Get Rich Is Glorious,'" The New Yorker Magazine, July 25, l994.



• "Observations On the New China," New Asia Review, Summer, l994.



• "Hero Of Tiananmen Square," Granta, #47, Summer, l994.



• "The Great Mall of China," Travel Holiday, May l994.



• "Red Azalea," Vogue Magazine, March l994.



• "Breaking China," Vogue Magazine, December l993.



• "Nothing To My Name," Icarus, Winter l993.



• "China - Going For Brokers," New Statesman, January, l993.



• "Once Again: Long Live Chairman Mao," The Atlantic Monthly Magazine, December, l992.



• "A Remembrance of William Shawn," San Francisco Sunday Examiner, December 27, l992.



• "China's Plays The Market," The Nation, December 14,l992.



• "A Letter To The President," Mother Jones Magazine," December l992.



• Change," Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 15, l992.



• "The New Emperors" by Harrison SalisburyBook of the Times Review, "New York Times, April 7, l992.



• "Underwriting Communism in China," Washington Post Outlook, March 18, l992.



• "Moscow's Churches Reform," Travel Holiday Magazine, September, l991.



• "Harassment of the Press in Beijing," Washington Post, Outlook Section, June 30, l991.



• "Capitalist Slavery In China," New York Times, Op-Ed Page, April 27, l991



• "The Silence of Intellectuals In China: Kafka, Kundera, Havel, and Mao," "China Update," Yale-China Association, Spring l991.



• "Back To China Laden With New Ideas," New York Times, Sunday Arts and Leisure Section, January 27, l991.



• "The China Syndrome," Travel-Holiday Magazine, February, l991.



• "Dispatches From The Tibetan plateau," Natural History Magazine, January, l991.



• "Self Censorship and Dissent in China," Human Rights in China Symposium, Columbia University, January l991.



• "The World's Worst Airline," Travel-Holiday Magazine, December, l990.



• "The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year In China," New York Times Book Review, October 28, l990.



• "The Liberation of Comrade Fang Lizhi," Los Angeles Times Magazine, October 7, l990.



• "U.SToo Soft On China, Fang Says From Exile," Los Angeles Times, June 9, l990.



• "A Voyage Through China's `Gulag,'" Washington Post Outlook Section, July 1, l990.



• "China By Armchair," Conde-Nast Traveller Magazine, April, l990.



• "Xian At A Crossroads," Image Magazine, March 18, l990.



• "The Last Dissident," Fame Magazine, March l990.



• "Keeping The Faith," New York Review of Books, December 21, l989, (Introduction to Fang Lizhi's Robert FKennedy Memorial Human Rights Award acceptance speech.)



• "Children of Tiananmen," Rolling Stone Magazine, December l989.



• "China At 40: A Tale of Tragedy," San Francisco Sunday Examiner, October 1, l989.



• "Lost Chance: How Bush Failed The Heroes of Tiananmen Square," Mother Jones Magazine, September l989.



• "Time For The West To Put China On Notice," Manchester Guardian Weekly, August 6, l989.



• "The Tiananmen Square Aftermath," International Herald Tribune, August 1, l989.



• "Five Lives Bush Might Save," Washington Post Sunday Outlook, July 30, l989.



• "China Massacre Portends Period of Brutal Conflict," San Francisco Sunday Examiner, July 16, l989.



• "Letters From the Other China," New York Review of Books, July 20th l989.



• "The Great Wall vsThe Fax," New Perspectives Quarterly, Summer, l989.



• "Deng's Ploy; Bush's Test," New York Times Op-Ed Page, June 15, l989.



• "Fang Fills Deng's Need For Scapegoat," San Francisco Sunday Examiner, June 14, l989.



• "China's Spring," The New York Review of Books, June 29, 1989.



• "The Mandate of Heaven," Washington Post Sunday Outlook Section, May 21, l989.



• "Reinventing China," The Harvard International Review, Spring, l989.



• "An Act of Defiance," New York Times Magazine, April 16, l989.



• "Chinese Intellectuals Pushing For Democracy," San Francisco Examiner, April 2, l989.



• "The Joy Luck Club," New York Times Book Review, March l9, l989.



• "Bei Dao: A Dissident Chinese Poet," Los Angeles Times Opinion Page, March 5, l989.



• "Socialism With Chinese Characteristics," Briefing Section, San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 1989.



• Fang Lizhi, "A Double Standard In Human Rights," Washington Post Outlook, February 26, l989(Translation)



• "Edgar Snow: A Biography," Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 29, l989.



• "Field Notes From An Amateur Airline Anthropologist," San Francisco Examiner, December 11, l988.



• "Biography of Deng Xiaoping," Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 23, 1988.



• "Capitalist Birds in a Socialist Birdcage," California Business Magazine, July 1988.



• "Reading: A Voyeur in China," Conde-Nast's Traveler Magazine, July,1988.



• "A Dissident Scientist Tests the Limits of China's Ambivalence Toward Change," Los Angeles Times Opinion Section, June 19, 1988.



• "Discos and Democracy In China," Mother Jones Magazine, June, 1988.



• "Fang Lizhi: China's Andrei Sakharov," Atlantic Monthly Magazine, May, 1988.



• "Mandarins, Martyrs and Revolutionaries," the New York Times Book Review, April 3, 1988.



• "When Colonel Sanders Met Chairman Mao," San Francisco Examiner, March 27, 1988.



• "Songs From China," This World, San Francisco Chronicle, January 24, 1988.



• "Agnes Smedley: The Life And Times of An American Radical," The Nation Magazine, December 19, 1987.



• "Glimpse of Old China In Modern Beijing," New York Times, The Sophisticated Traveler Magazine, October 4, 1987.



• "From Mao To Madison Avenue: Advertising in China," The Discovery Channel, September 1987.



• "Today's China Always Surprises," Chicago Tribune, July 7, 1987.



• "Body Building In China," Women's Sports and Fitness, August 1987.



• "Running Dogs And Credit Cards: Class Struggle and a Chinese Dictionary," New York Times Book Review, June 7, 1987.



• "Advertising in China," This World, San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 1987.



• "China's Two Steps Back," New Perspectives Quarterly, Spring, 1987.



• "East Meets West," San Francisco Examiner, May 10, 1987.



• "Serving the People with Advertising," Whole Earth Review, Spring 1987.



• "Notes From Abroad: China," Granta, Winter 1986.



• "The China Card," The New York Times Book Review, June 22, 1986.



• "Riding China's Capitalist Road," The New York Times Travel Section, May 25, 1986.



• "China's New Hotels: Learning From the West," New York Times, December 2, 1985.



• "Capitalism By Example," The New York Times Book Review, September 15, 1985.



• "Homecoming," The New York Times Book Review, June 23, 1985.



• "Video Games In China," The New Yorker, June 10, 1985.



• "Opening a Door on the Colossus of China," Chicago Sun-Times, May 5, 1985.



• "His Guitars for the Stars Are There for the Pickin'," Smithsonian Magazine, April 1985.



• "Prime Time in Peking," The New Yorker, April 1, 1985.



• "La Vent Qui Pousser a Cheminer Seul," Lettre Internationale, Paris, Winter 1984-85.



• "Uptown With Mimi," The New Yorker, December 24, 1984.



• "China's New Open Door," A Reporter-at-Large, The New Yorker, November 19, 1984.



• "Chine, La Privatization," Lettre Internationale, Paris Autumn, 1984.



• "China's Other Revolution," Granta #13, Cambridge, England, 1984.



• "Crime and Capitalism in China," Co-Evolution Quarterly, Summer 1984.



• "Les Goloks: Terreur Des Explorateurs," Grands Reportage, Paris, April 1984.



• "A Kind of Commons: Antibiotic Feed Additives," A Reporter-at-Large (Part I), The New Yorker, April 30, 1984.



• "A Kind of Commons: Antibiotic Feed Additives," A Reporter-at-Large (Part II), The New Yorker, April 23, 1984.



• "DrTribble's Artificial Aromas and Flavors," Country Journal, March 1984.



• "Rounding Up Americans: Japanese Interment," The New York Times Book Review, January 1, 1984.



• "Let Them Eat Cardboard," Mother Jones Magazine, January 1984.



• "An Oasis of Privilege in China," The New York Times, November 27, 1983.



• "Off The Grand Canal," The New York Times, October 2, 1983.



• "Plastic Hay," Country Journal, July 1983.



• "The Conspiracy and Death of Lin Biao," The New York Times Book Review, May 15, 1983.



• "Son of The Revolution," The New York Times Book Review, February 13, 1983.



• "A Tibetan Monastery Reawakens on China's Frontier," Asia Magazine, November-December 1982.



• "Brown: Losing the Yeast From Our Political Loaf," The Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1982.



• "Pigs, Mud and Garbage," Country Journal, October 1982.



• "A Veritable Smorgasbord Set in 19th Century China," The Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 13, 1982.



• "After the Revolution: A Crisis in Confidence," The Los Angeles Times Book Review, June 13, 1982.



• "Sentimental Imperialism: The American Experience in the Far East," Journal of Asian Studies, Spring 1982.



• "China's Cultural Dilemma," The New York Times Op-Ed, November 301981.



• "Expatriate Chinese Youth's Disillusionment," The Japan Times, August 22, 1981.



• "In Orange County Chairman Mao is Never Far Away," The Los Angeles Times, August 16, 1981.



• "Deregulating the Farmer," The Alicia Patterson Foundation Reporter, February 1981.



• "The Meat Inspector," The Alicia Patterson Foundation Reporter, February 1981.



• "China's Past Is On Trial Too," Life Magazine, February 1981.



• "Our Mistakes About China," Newsweek (My Turn), February 16, 1981.



• "East Facing West: An Encounter in Shanghai," The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, January 4, 1981.



• "China Encounters the West," Rolling Stone Magazine, December 11, 1980.



• "Antibiotics and Meat," The Alicia Patterson Reporter, October, 1980.



• "A Friend of China," The New York Times Book Review, July 20, 1980.



• "The Return of China's Curbside Capitalists," Asia Magazine, July-August 1980.



• "DES and the Cattlemen," The Alicia Patterson Foundation Reporter, June 1980.



• "The Range Isn't the Same Without DES the Cattlemen Say," The Los Angeles Times, May 11, 1980.



• "A Novel of New China," The New York Times Book Review, May 4, 1980.



• "Dateline Peking," The Columbia Journalism Review, May 4, 1980.



• "For Many Young Chinese, U.SCulture is a Magnet," The Los Angeles Times, February 10, 1980.



• "The American Card Plays China," The Columbia Journalism Review, November-December 1979.



• "In China, Young Americans' Disco Diplomat Wreaks Havoc," The Los Angeles Times, October 28, 1979.



• "The Tail of a Donkey and Trunk of An Elephant: Jerry Brown Tries to Pull It All Together," Rolling Stone Magazine, October 18, 1979.



• "Arthur Miller in China: Western Questions, Eastern Answers," The New York Times Book Review, October 14, 1979.



• "China's Magic Filter," New China, Fall 1979.



• "Jerry Brown's Economics in an Era of Limits," The Los Angeles Times, August 1979.



• "China Heads for the Last Round-up," Mother Jones Magazine, August 1979.



• "Love's Proper Place in China," Asia Magazine, May-June 1979.



• "Chinese Figures in a Borrowed Landscape," The Columbia Journalism Review, May-June 1979.



• "The China Difference," Ross Terrill ed., Harper and Row, 1979Schell Contribution, "Private Life in a Public Culture".



• "MacArthur," The Saturday Review, March 1979.



• "Peking Official Fang Yi Confident of Modernization," The New York Times, February 5, 1979.



• "Deng Xiaoping: Confessions of an Unreconstructed Capitalist Roader," The Los Angeles Times, February 4, 1979.



• "The U.Sand China: An Uncertain Balance," The Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1978.



• "Eight Odd Ones," The New York Times Book Review, January 15, 1978.



• "Eastward Ho On Jerry Brown's Orient Express," New York Times Magazine, March 6, 1978.



• "Meine Freude, die Chinesen," Zeit Magazin, October 7 & 14, 1977.



• "China: Peking and Shanghai," A Reporter-at-Large (Part I), The New Yorker, March 7, 1977.



• "China: The Factory and Farm," A Reporter-at-Large (Part II), The New Yorker, March 14, 1977.



• "China's Way with Waste," The Ecologist, London, February 1972.



• "The Subculture Spawned by Electronic Warfare," Harper's Magazine, October 1972.



• "Silent Vietnam, Ecocide in Indochina," Look Magazine, March 6, 1971.



• "A Fable for Our Times," The Sierra Club Bulletin, July 1970.



• "The Cambodian Civil War," The New Republic, June 6, 1970.



• "Melby and the Mandate of Heaven in China," The Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, January 1970.



• "China in Our High Schools," The Nation, July 14, 1969.



• "Vietnam: A Day's Work," The New Republic, March 2, 1968.



• "Cage For the Innocents," The Atlantic Monthly, January 1968.



• "Thailand: Privileged Sanctuary," The New Republic, September 1967.

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