Episode 137: Orville Schell - Will The Chinese People Ever Be Free?
Description
Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.
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(00:00 ) Intro
(01:00 ) Orville's entering China in the 1970s
(07:10 ) Was was China like in the 1970s?
(10:09 ) The palpable fear in China in the 1970s
(14:55 ) The details of Mao Zedong the Cultural Revolution
(20:40 ) What preceded Communism in China?
(25:32 ) Why was Communism appealing to Chinese revolutionaries?
(30:11 ) China in the 1970s and how it reopened to the world
(37:10 ) Why did China not become free after the 1980s?
(41:39 ) 1989 and Tiananmen Square
(45:28 ) China in the next few years
(52:19 ) How might China become free?
(55:26 ) Why China matters