Daniel A. Bell is an internationally renowned philosopher and sociologist. He is currently a Fudan Distinguished Chair Professor and 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).