Book Talk – Inside China’s Secret Prisons: An Undercover Exposé and Its Lasting Legacy

The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to a discussion with Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Vice President of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, over his book “Inside China’s Secret Prisons.”

In 1991, 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.

The conversation will be moderated by Rana Mitter, S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard Kennedy School.

Lunch will be provided.

About the Author

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Asia Society Vice President and Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations and the former dean of the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of numerous books, most recently My Old Home: A Novel of Exile (2021) and, with John Delury, Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century (2013).

Event Details

This event is open to Harvard ID holders only and will not be recorded.

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