Mandate of Heaven

by Schell, Orville

• ISBN13: 9780684804477
• ISBN10: 0684804476
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Touchstone Books

Summary

America's foremost chronicler of contemporary China brilliantly illuminates the new power structure, economic initiatives, and cultural changes that have transformed China since the Tianamen Square massacre of 1989. "A rich portrait, capturing a fascinating and perhaps fateful moment in China's long, turbulent history".--Arnold R. Isaacs, San Francisco Chronicle.

Author Biography

Orville Schell is a China expert/journalist with a unique understanding of China and exceptional access to China's next generation of leaders. A writer with more than thirty-five years' experience studying China at Harvard and at the University of California, Berkeley, and writing about China for such magazines as The Atlantic, The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, Schell has won numerous awards for his China reporting, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Freedom Forum Senior Fellowship at Columbia University.