My Old Home, A Novel of Exile: Orville Schell and Peter Sellars in Conversation, with Musical Interludes

Illuminations “Fact or Fiction” Talk

Orville Schell—Director of the Center on US–China Relations at the Asia Society in New York, former Dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and a uniquely experienced observer of contemporary China—joined renowned theater director Peter Sellars for a March 30, 2021 livestreamed conversation centered on Schell’s just-published My Old Home, A Novel of Exile. Welcomed and introduced by New Yorker contributing journalist, writer, and cultural critic Zha Jianying.