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Canadian political scientist (born 1964)
Daniel A. Bell (
Chinese : 贝淡宁 ; born 22 May 1964) is a Canadian political theorist. He is currently Chair of Political Theory at the
University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law .
[2] He was previously Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at
Shandong University and professor at
Tsinghua University (
Schwarzman College and Department of Philosophy).
Education and career
Bell was born in
Montreal , educated at
McGill University and the
University of Oxford , has taught in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai, and has held research fellowships at
Princeton's University Center for Human Values,
Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and
Hebrew University 's Department of Political Science. In his book The Dean of Shandong he writes about his experiences as a dean at
Shandong University between 2017 and 2022 and what they say about China.
[3]
He has put forward his views in favour of China's political
meritocracy and against one person one vote as a mode of selection for political leaders in his books
[4]
[5]
[6] and in comments published in
The New York Times ,
[7] the
Financial Times ,
[8]
[9] and in regular columns published in
The Huffington Post ,
[10] in
Project Syndicate ,
[11] in
The Guardian ,
[12] as well as the Chinese-language periodical
South Reviews (《南风窗》 )
[13] and a Chinese-language blog site on
Caijing (《财经》 ).
[14] He was the recipient of the Huilin Prize in 2018.[
citation needed ] In his book China's New Confucianism (Chinese: 中国新儒家), he argues that
Confucian social hierarchies actually contribute to economic equality in China. He also pointed out that Confucianism influenced how he acts a political theorist and a teacher.
[15]
Works
Bell is the author of books including:
Bell, Daniel A. (2023).
Dean of Shandong : confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university . [S.l.]: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
0-691-24712-9 .
OCLC
1337145544 .
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy , Princeton University Press, 2015.
ISBN
9781400865505 .
The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age [co-authored with Avner de-Shalit], Princeton University Press, 2011.
ISBN
9780691151441 .
China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society , Princeton University Press, 2010.
ISBN
9781400834822 .
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context , Princeton University Press, 2006.
ISBN
9781400827466 .
East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia , Princeton University Press, 2000.
ISBN
9781400823550 .
Towards Liberal Democracy in Pacific Asia [co-authored with David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya, and David Martin Jones], Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
ISBN
9780333613993 .
Communitarianism and Its Critics , Oxford University Press, 1993.
ISBN
9780198279228 .
He is the series editor of a translation series by
Princeton University Press that aims to translate the original works of Chinese scholars:
He is also the editor of Confucian Political Ethics (
Princeton University Press ) and the co-editor of six books:
Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World [co-edited with Wang Pei], Princeton University Press, 2020.
The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective [co-edited with Chenyang Li], Cambridge University Press, 2013.
ISBN
9781107623774 .
Confucian Political Ethics , Princeton University Press, 2007.
ISBN
9781400828661 .
Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations [co-edited with Jean-Marc Coicaud], Cambridge University Press, 2006.
ISBN
9780521684491 .
The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory series) [co-edited with Hahm Chaihark], Lexington Books, 2004.
ISBN
9780739107997 .
Confucianism for the Modern World [co-edited with Hahm Chaibong], Cambridge University Press, 2003.
ISBN
9780521527880 .
Forms of Justice: Critical Perspectives on David Miller's Political Philosophy [co-edited with Avner de-Shalit], Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.
ISBN
9780742521797 .
The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights [co-edited with Joanne R. Bauer], Cambridge University Press, 1999.
ISBN
9780521645362 .
References
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Nathan, Andrew J. (2015).
"Beijing Bull: The Bogus China Model" . The National Interest . No. 140. Washington: Center for the National Interest. pp. 73–81.
ISSN
0884-9382 . Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
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https://www.law.hku.hk/academic_staff/professor-daniel-bell/
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247120/the-dean-of-shandong
^ Ash, Alec (2023-11-23).
"Professor Pangloss Goes to Shandong" . China Books Review . Retrieved 2023-11-23 .
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The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
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The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective
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Daniel A. Bell, "Teaching ‘Western Values’ in China" , 2015-4-16;
Jiang Qing and Daniel A. Bell, "A Confucian Constitution for China" , 2012-7-10;
Daniel A. Bell, "Moving Eastward" , 2011-2-16;
Daniel A. Bell, "Developing China's Soft Power , 2010-9-23;
Daniel A. Bell, "The Confucian Party , 2009-5-11
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Daniel A. Bell, "In defence of how China picks its leader"
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Daniel A. Bell, "Real meaning of the rot at the top of China"
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Daniel A. Bell's articles in Huffington Post
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Daniel A. Bell's articles in Project Syndicate
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Daniel A. Bell's articles in The Guardian
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贝淡宁:“另一种精英治国”
Archived 2020-09-30 at the
Wayback Machine .
South Reviews ,2013-10-28;
贝淡宁:“中国应该追求更好的制度”
Archived 2020-09-30 at the
Wayback Machine ,南风窗,2011-12-07.
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贝淡宁的博客
Archived 2015-03-29 at the
Wayback Machine ,
Caijing Net (财经网)
^ 贝淡宁.
中国新儒家 . Translated by 吴万伟. 上海三联书店 译者: 吴万伟.
ISBN
978-7-5426-3363-7 .
External links
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