Daniel A Bell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3699754 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel A Bell |
| NOMBRES | Daniel A |
| APELLIDO | Bell |
| FIRMA | BELL D A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5521-3383 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 11 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters
An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkers—and what they can teach us about today’s most pressing political questions in China and beyond China’s most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since and, remarkably, their influence on the country’s leaders is only growing today. Yet these timeless debates—w…
The Confucian virtue of harmony in education
This interview examines the conceptual and political potential of the Confucian virtue of harmony (和) as a cultural resource for addressing contemporary challenges of conflict and difference in public discourse. It adopts a cross-cultural, comparative perspective through a dialogue between two scholars: one raised in the West who has taught in the East, and the other raised in the East but academically trained in the West. The conversation pursue…
A Symposium on Daniel A. Bell’s The Dean of Shandong
Author’s Response
Political meritocracy is the idea that the political system should aim to select and promote public officials with superior ability and virtue. The ideal was developed in pre-Qin Chinese history by Confucianism and other schools of political thought. A similar ideal is put forward in Plato’s Republic but political meritocracy has been central the Chinese political thinking for about 2,500 years. It was institutionalized in imperial China by means…
Political Meritocracy Based on Public Reason
Ritual, Community, and Democracy
China in the Year 2050
This article discusses China's political history from 2025 to 2050. In 2025, there was strong support for the political system due to measures that curbed corruption, reduced pollution, and alleviated poverty, but intellectuals felt stifled by increased repression. From 2025 to 2035-known as China's "Lost Decade"-China's economy worsened and relations with the USA further deteriorated, nearly leading to war. The next fifteen years-known as China'…
The Dean of Shandong
The Dean of Shandong
The Dean of Shandong
An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University—the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China’s history. In The Dean of Shandong , Bell chronicles his experiences as what he calls “a minor bureaucrat,” offering an inside account of the workings of Chi…
Une perspective confucéenne sur les droits de propriété
Tout au long de l’histoire de la Chine, les confucéens se sont opposés au contrôle rigoureux du gouvernement légiste et ont mis en garde contre les effets négatifs de l’intervention de l’État dans l’économie. Cela ne s’est toutefois pas traduit par l’approbation d’un régime de droits de propriété privée sans entraves. Du point de vue confucéen, l’État a l’obligation de garantir les conditions du bien-être matériel de base de la population et cell…
Dean of Shandong
Miranda Warning Comprehension
The Miranda warning was drafted in order to inform people of their rights upon arrest in an easy to understand manner. However, to understand the warning a person needs a high school level reading comprehension (which is above the level of most offenders). Among these offenders, deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) individuals are particularly prone to misinterpreting the Miranda warning due to language barriers with law enforcement and below average E…
Response to Sungmoon Kim’s Review of Just Hierarchy
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Qingdao
Qingdao, a stunningly beautiful coastal city in China’s Shandong province, has been regarded as an ideal city over the course of its history. But the content of the ideal has changed over time. In the past, it was associated with nearby Lao Mountain, a sacred Daoist site, and regarded as a spiritual ideal. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Qingdao was viewed by leading Chinese intellectuals and political reformers as an ideal po…
Introduction
We are familiar with the idea that nations need identities. But we are less familiar with the idea that cities need identities. We argue that cities do need their own normative identities, which we term ‘ethoses’, and that it is morally permissible for cities to protect their own ethoses, sometimes even to challenge the state and its values. We spell out this argument in the introduction to a special issue on ‘Cities and Identities’ and the contr…
Just Hierarchy
Just Hierarchy
Just Hierarchy
All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. This book contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as the book shows, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. The book ask which forms of hierarchy are justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals. It looks at ways of promoting just forms of h…
Freedom of Association
Social cohesion without electoral democracy
Democratic elections, whatever the flaws, tend to produce a sense of social cohesion as ordinary citizens, treated as equals, gather together to select their country’s political leaders. In China, leaders are not selected by means of democratic elections. How can China secure social cohesion without national elections? We will discuss some responses from the government and from scholars and ‘ordinary people’
The politics of affective relations
1 Introduction: The Politics of Affective Relations in East Asia 2 Part I:Toward a Political Theory of Affective Relations 3 Confucian Perspectives on Pluralism, Gender Equality, and the Family 4 Confucianism and the Public Sphere: Five Relationships Plus One? 5 Exploring the Non-familial in Confucian Political Philosophy 6 Is a Confucian Family-Oriented Civil Society Possible? 7 The Personal is Political: Confucianism and Liberal Feminism 8 Part…
Forms of Justice
Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Social Justice Chapter 3 Social Justice: Why Does It Matter What the People Think? Chapter 4 The Political Conditions of Social Justice Chapter 5 Meritocracy, Desert and the Moral Force of Intuitions Chapter 6 Desert and Luck Chapter 7 Markets and Desert Part 8 National Justice Chapter 9 Social Justice and the Nation State: A Modest Attack Chapter 10 What Rights for Illiberal Communities? Chapter 11 Deliberative Demo…
What it Means to be Disadvantaged and What can be Done about it
A Communitarian Critique of Authoritarianism
Evaluation de l'argument communautariste contre la democratie developpe par Lee Kuan Yew, a travers un dialogue fictif entre les opposants et les partisans de la democratie a Singapour, representes par Lee, d'une part, et par un democrate occidental appele Demo, d'autre part. L'A. mesure l'abime entre la rhetorique communautariste officielle et la realite individualiste de l'ile, l'autoritarisme (meme faible) sapant les bases du patriotisme neces…
Student Power
The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights
The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights: Reflections on an East West Dialogue 1 Daniel A. Bell (bio) This paper attempts to get beyond the rhetoric that has dogged the human rights debate and to identify relatively persuasive East Asian criticisms of traditional Western approaches to human rights. It distinguishes among three sorts of arguments for a culturally sensitive approach to human rights: (1) the argument that situation-specific justific…
Comparing Political Values in China and the West
Along with China's economic and military rise, its leading political values will increasingly shape both China and the world at large. Hence, we need to understand, compare, and learn from leading values in China's political culture. This review discusses recent efforts to systematically compare three leading values in China's philosophical traditions—meritocracy, hierarchy, and harmony—with leading values from the political culture of Western so…
Which Rights are Universal
EVAN CHARNEY HELPFULLY DEFINES THE TERM universal human rights. Human rights are held by individuals. They protect individuals against actions of other individuals and/or collectivities (including political and economic organizations). They are egalitarian because they are held equally by all individuals. They are universal because they apply in all cultural contexts. Finally, human rights are fundamental, meaning that they override other politic…
Introduction
We are familiar with the idea that nations need identities. But we are less familiar with the idea that cities need identities. We argue that cities do need their own normative identities, which we term ‘ethoses’, and that it is morally permissible for cities to protect their own ethoses, sometimes even to challenge the state and its values. We spell out this argument in the introduction to a special issue on ‘Cities and Identities’ and the contr…
Harmony in the World 2013
Television sex roles in the 1980s
East Meets West
A Communitarian Critique of Liberalism
Communitarian thinkers have argued that liberalism devalues community in modern societies. This essay assesses the three main strands of the contemporary debate betweeen communitarianism and liberalism: (1) the communitarian critique of the liberal universalism, (2) the communitarian critique of liberal individualism, and (3) the communitarian critique of liberal politics. In each case, it is argued that the debate has moved from fairly abstract …
The Limits of Liberal Justice
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War, Peace, and China's Soft Power
The contemporary Chinese intellectual Kang Xiaoguang has argued that Chinese soft power should be based on Confucian culture, the most influential Chinese political tradition. But which Confucian values should form the core of China's soft power? This paper first explores the coexistence of state sovereignty and utopian cosmopolitanism through an analysis of Confucian tradition up to contemporary Chinese nationalism. It insists on the exogenous r…
Citizenship and State-Sponsored Physical Education
In ancient Greece and ancient China, small states engaged in intense military competition and incessant warfare. In such contexts, there was naturally much emphasis on the training of soldiers. One might have expected state-sponsored physical education to develop as a by-product of the need to train soldiers, but the historical record shows that ancient Greek states placed far more emphasis on physical education compared to their counterparts in …
Social cohesion without electoral democracy
Democratic elections, whatever the flaws, tend to produce a sense of social cohesion as ordinary citizens, treated as equals, gather together to select their country’s political leaders. In China, leaders are not selected by means of democratic elections. How can China secure social cohesion without national elections? We will discuss some responses from the government and from scholars and ‘ordinary people’
Being Confucian
It is difficult, arguably, for modern leftist thinkers to sympathize with Confucian values that seem best suited to old, boring and deadly serious defenders of conservative traditions. But this stereotypical image may be mistaken. Drawing on his own experience, the author argues that Confucians can and should have a sense of humour and engage in social and political criticism. He also questions the idea that Confucians need to be elderly gentleme…
The Reforming of General Education
The Changing American School
The Reforming of General Education
Student Power
The Reforming of General Education
Television sex roles in the 1980s
Towards Illiberal Democracy
This book challenges the view that liberal democracy is the inevitable outcome of economic modernization. Focusing on the stable and prosperous societies of Pacific Asia, it argues that contemporary p
A communitarian critique of authoritarianism
The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights
The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights: Reflections on an East West Dialogue 1 Daniel A. Bell (bio) This paper attempts to get beyond the rhetoric that has dogged the human rights debate and to identify relatively persuasive East Asian criticisms of traditional Western approaches to human rights. It distinguishes among three sorts of arguments for a culturally sensitive approach to human rights: (1) the argument that situation-specific justific…
A Communitarian Critique of Authoritarianism
Evaluation de l'argument communautariste contre la democratie developpe par Lee Kuan Yew, a travers un dialogue fictif entre les opposants et les partisans de la democratie a Singapour, representes par Lee, d'une part, et par un democrate occidental appele Demo, d'autre part. L'A. mesure l'abime entre la rhetorique communautariste officielle et la realite individualiste de l'ile, l'autoritarisme (meme faible) sapant les bases du patriotisme neces…
The Limits of Liberal Justice
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Democratic Deliberation
The most influential political philosophers today divide their work into two tasks. The first task is to present and rigorously defend morally desirable political principles, and the second is to think about how to implement them. Quite often, the first task proves to be overwhelming, and it is left to others to think about feasibility. The problem, of course, is that the political principles often prove to be useless or counterproductive in prac…
Democracy with Chinese Characteristics
Interviews Professor Wang, a political philosopher at Beijing University about the political reforms in China. Explanation on a democratic political system with Chinese characteristics; Confucian tradition of respect for a ruling intellectual elite; Relevance of Confucian scholar Huang Zongxi's proposal for reform
Which Rights are Universal
EVAN CHARNEY HELPFULLY DEFINES THE TERM universal human rights. Human rights are held by individuals. They protect individuals against actions of other individuals and/or collectivities (including political and economic organizations). They are egalitarian because they are held equally by all individuals. They are universal because they apply in all cultural contexts. Finally, human rights are fundamental, meaning that they override other politic…
East Meets West
East Meets West
Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. Liberal democrats in the West typically counter by questioning the motives of Asian critics, arguing that Asian leaders are merely trying to rationalize human-rights violations and authoritarian rule. In this book--written a…
East Meets West
East Meets West
Introduction
Confucians have long been preoccupied with social and political change. According to the standard account, Master Kong (Latinized name: Confucius; c. 551—479 B.C.) left his native state of Lu, hoping to find a ruler more receptive to his ideas about good government. Unfortunately, Confucius did not have any luck, and he was forced to settle for a life of teaching. Several generations later, a student in the academic lineage of Confucius's grandso…
Confucian Constraints on Property Rights
Confucius, as we know, stressed rule by moral example and opposed heavyhanded governmental control. Mencius extended this bias against state intervention to the economic realm. He suggested that anything beyond a taxation level of "one in ten" is "morally wrong" (III.B.8, Lau).1 Minimal taxation would also have desirable economic consequences: "Tend the fields of grain and flax well, tax their yield lightly, and the people will be prosperous" (7A…
Confucianism for the Modern World
While Confucian ideals continue to inspire thinkers and political actors, discussions of concrete Confucian practices and institutions appropriate for the modern era have been conspicuously absent from the literature thus far. This volume represents the most cutting edge effort to spell out in meticulous detail the relevance of Confucianism for the contemporary world. The contributors to this book - internationally renowned philosophers, lawyers,…
Citizenship and State-Sponsored Physical Education
In ancient Greece and ancient China, small states engaged in intense military competition and incessant warfare. In such contexts, there was naturally much emphasis on the training of soldiers. One might have expected state-sponsored physical education to develop as a by-product of the need to train soldiers, but the historical record shows that ancient Greek states placed far more emphasis on physical education compared to their counterparts in …
Human Rights and Social Criticism in Contemporary Chinese Political Theory
Justice for Migrant Workers? The Case of Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore 1
The trend in Western liberal democracies is to extend to long-term residents most, if not all, the legal rights of citizens and improving their access to citizenship for immigrants and their descendants. The situation is different in developed East Asian societies, where the most migrant workers work under short-term contracts without the possibility of becoming equal members of the political community. It is argued that the special circumstances…
A Communitarian Critique of Liberalism
Communitarian thinkers have argued that liberalism devalues community in modern societies. This essay assesses the three main strands of the contemporary debate betweeen communitarianism and liberalism: (1) the communitarian critique of the liberal universalism, (2) the communitarian critique of liberal individualism, and (3) the communitarian critique of liberal politics. In each case, it is argued that the debate has moved from fairly abstract …
Ethics in Action
This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to co…
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