Daniel A. Bell

Position

Professor and Dean, School of Political Science and Public Administration

Educational Background

PhD (Political Theory) University of Oxford

Contact

Email: bei@sdu.edu.cn

Web: www.danielabell.com

Office Location

326# Huagang South Building

Address

Shandong University Qingdao Campus, 72 Binhai Road, Qingdao, Shandong, China 266237

Profile

Daniel A. Bell is Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University. He was born in Montreal, educated at McGill and Oxford, has taught in Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong 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.

He is the author of numerous books including The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (2015), The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age[coauthored with Avner de-Shalit] (2011), China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society (2010), Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context (2006), and East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia (2000), all published by Princeton University Press. He is also the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford, 1993). He is the series editor of a translation series by Princeton University Press that aims to translate the most influential and original works of Chinese scholars. He is also the editor of Confucian Political Ethics (Princeton University Press) and the coeditor of four books with Cambridge University Press, including (with Chenyang Li) The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in a Comparative Context (2013). He writes widely on Chinese politics and philosophy for the media including the Financial Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Global Times, Nanfengchuang, Worldpost, Project Syndicate, and the Guardian’s Comment Is Free blog, and he has been interviewed in English, Chinese, and French. His articles and books have been translated in Chinese and twenty-two other languages. Daniel received the Huilin Prize in 2018.

Research Area

1. Comparative political theory

2. Confucianism

3. Political theory of cities

4. Communitarianism

Courses

Reading Xunzi

Selected Publication(s)

·The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

Princeton University Press, 2015.

· 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.A follow-up book was published in Chinese in 2018.

·China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

Princeton University Press, 2010.

·Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context

Princeton University Press, 2006.

·East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia

Princeton University Press, 2000.

·Towards Liberal Democracy in Pacific Asia

co-authored with David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya, and David Martin Jones, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.

·Communitarianism and Its Critics

Oxford University Press, 1993.

Awards

· The Huilin Prize (2018)

· The China Model (Selected as one of the Financial Times’ Best Books of 2015)

· Beyond Liberal Democracy (One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007)