Daniel A. Bell is Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholar Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing and director of the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture. He was born in Montreal, educated at McGill and Oxford, has taught in Singapore and Hong Kong, and has held research fellowships at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Books in order of publication:
Communitarianism and Its Critics – 1993
Towards Liberal Democracy in Pacific Asia – 1995
East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia – 2000
Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context – 2006
China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society – 2010
The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age – 2012
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy – 2015
The dean of Shandong : confessions of a minor bureaucrat at a Chinese university -2023
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