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.

This vivid, prophetic book on China’s magnetic attraction to the West is the perfect introduction to China in the eighties.

Current Affairs/Asian StudiesPerhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For the country's 1.3 billion citizens, changes have been equally dramatic, from skyrocketing sales in automobiles and satellite dishes to an explosion in violent crime and drug trafficking.T...

Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage to burst forth onto the world stage with such an impressive run of hyperdevelopment and wealth...

晶片時代，面對半導體地緣政治的必修課！半導體產業是技術創新的驅動力，對國家經濟繁榮和國家安全發揮至關重要的作用。隨著新興科技與半導體產業的發展，美國、台灣和中國組成了「晶三角」，而台灣在半導體製造領域的技術優勢，某種程度上打破了晶片競爭中各國互賴的平衡，也因此正式將全球化分工合作背後，國家利益隨著各國發展而必須重新分配的現實推上了檯面。2022年，美國通過《晶片法案》，漸次加上一連串的晶片出口禁令，正引領前所未有的政策改變。美國決策者和專家學者，是如何用經濟安全戰略的眼光看待台灣？如何思考與中國的科技競爭？面對中國在科技領域的強大競爭力對美國造成的國家安全威脅，美國的經濟政策調整邏輯為何？又，作為先進半導體設計生產中心，台灣如何被視為重要一環？《晶三角》借鑑了由技術專家、經濟學家、軍事戰略家、科技產業人士和地區政策專家組成的胡佛研究所─亞洲協會跨學科工作組的討論，來探討半導體全球動態供應鏈──●美國半導體產業面臨日益增長、受制於人的脆弱性，欲力挽狂瀾維持科技領導地位；●中國政府積極推動本土半導體技...

By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of failures to change somehow culminate in the extraordinary dynamism of China today?By examining the lives of eleven influential officials, writers, activists and leaders whose contributions helped create modern China, Wealth and Power ...

In 1991, the China analyst and journalist Orville Schell worked on an in-depth 60 Minutes investigation of the People’s Republic of China’s vast “reform through labor” prison camp system, revealing that products made with forced labor were being surreptitiously and illegally sold to the United States. Inside China’s Secret Prisons is his gripping account of this milestone exposé’s progress—and how its findings still reverberate today.Schell weaves a fast-paced sto...

The United States, Taiwan, and China are bound within a "silicon triangle." Semiconductors link our geopolitics, our ongoing economic prosperity, and our technological competitiveness. This book draws on the deliberations of a multidisciplinary Hoover Institution–Asia Society working group of technologists, economists, military strategists, industry players, and regional policy experts to contemplate the dynamic global supply chain in semiconductors—one in which US industry faces growing v...

While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertively that country has already sought to influence American society. As the authors of this volume write, it is time for a wake-up call. In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, they aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and loca...