Inside China’s Secret Prisons: Book Talk with Orville Schell and Adam Hochschild
Monday, October 26, 2026 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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Join us for a book talk with Orville Schell in conversation with Adam Hochschild on China’s prison camps, their Soviet roots, and the threats to journalists who investigate them, hosted by the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law. RSVP HERE.
Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Vice President of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and dean at Berkeley Journalism, and the author of 15 books, 10 of them about China.
Adam Hochschild is the author of The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin; King Leopold’s Ghost; To End All Wars; and 8 other books. He is a continuing lecturer at Berkeley Journalism.
Welcoming remarks from Sasha Schell, supervising reporter at the Human Rights Center.
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