Daniel A. Bell

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Daniel A. Bell (Chinese name: 贝淡宁; born May 1964, Montreal) is a prolific and controversial[1] political theorist who has been teaching at Tsinghua University in Beijing since 2004. He is now Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua and director of the Berggruen Institute's Philosophy and Culture Center.[2] He has put forward his views in favor of China’s political meritocracy and against one person one vote as a mode of selection for political leaders in two books[3] and in comments published in the New York Times,[4] the Financial Times,[5] the Global Times (环球时报),[6] and in regular columns published in the Huffington Post,[7] in Project Syndicate,[8] in the Guardian,[9] as well as the Chinese language periodical Nanfengchuang (南风窗,English:South Reviews)[10] and a Chinese language blog site on Caijing (‘财经’).[11]

He was educated at McGill University and Oxford University, has taught in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and has held research fellowships at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.[12]

Works

Bell is the author of books including:

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:

References

  1. Political Theory: Daniel A. Bell: “I don’t believe that democracy is the best way.”,The East-West Dichotomy, 2013-4-8; See also Mark Mackinnon,Meet the Canadian prof making waves for praising China as a meritocracy,The Globe and Mail, 2012-11-24; Michael Mazza,A Look at China’s ‘Political Meritocracy’, The American, 2012-8-7; Embarrassed meritocrats: Westerners who laud a Chinese meritocracy continue to miss the point, The Economist, 2012-10-27;Beyond Liberal Democracy: A Debate on Democracy and Confucian Meritocracy, Philosophy East and West,Volume 59, Number 4, October 2009; Richard Burger,The unintended consequence of the “China-as-meritocracy”debates, 2012-11-15;James Griffiths,Democracy is not a perfect system, but the Chinese meritocracy is pure fantasy, 2012-11-26; Christopher A. Ford,A State of Moral Confucian, New Paradigms Forum, 2013-7-12;Daniel Bell on MeritocracyWarp, Weft, and Way: Chinese and Comparative Philosophy,2012-7-26; Olivia Boyd, A rise in Confucianism will make China's leaders more eco-conscious, 2012-11-8; Sam Crane,The Chinese Political System is not a Meritocracy,The Useless Tree: Ancient Chinese Thought in Modern American Life,2012-7-25; 鞠靖、方芳,洋教授贝淡宁的中国观:“需要民主,也需要‘贤能政治’”,南方周末,2013-01-19; Daniel A. Bell and Michael Walzer,Debating Democracy Promotion in China, Dissent, 2008-8-11; 从贤能政治看中国政治话语表达,新华网,2014-2-26
  2. Website of Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture
  3. The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy;The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective
  4. 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, "Developping China's Soft Power, 2010-9-23;Daniel A. Bell, "The Confucian Party, 2009-5-11
  5. Daniel A. Bell, "In defence of how China picks its leader";Daniel A. Bell, "Real meaning of the rot at the top of China"
  6. 贝淡宁:"当代贤能政治是中国的大进步", 环球时报,2013-01-29
  7. Daniel A. Bell's articles in Huffington Post
  8. Daniel A. Bell's articles in Project Syndicate
  9. Daniel A. Bell's articles in The Guardian
  10. 贝淡宁:“另一种精英治国”,南风窗,2013-10-28;贝淡宁:“中国应该追求更好的制度”,南风窗,2011-12-07.
  11. 贝淡宁的博客,Caijingwang (财经网)
  12. Daniel A. Bell's website on WordPress

See also

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