Shandong University, Jinan, Taiwan, Province of China
Email: bei@sdu.edu.cnPersonal URL: 
Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University and professor at Tsinghua University (Schwarzman College and Department of Philosophy). He was born in Montreal, educated at McGill and Oxford, has taught in 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.
Awards:
the Huilin Prize 2018
Fields of study: Communitarianism and Its Critics, Confucian Political Ethics, The East Asian Challenge for Democracy, Political Meritocracy
Recent publications:
Bell, D.A. Toward confucian-inspired democratic meritocracy: A response to Yong Huang, Chenyang Li, and Binfan Wang. Philosophy East and West, 2019, 69(2): 585–591
Bell, D.A. Towards democracy and meritocracy in China: A response to critics. Politics and Religion, 2018, 11(4): 899–907
Bell, D.A. Introduction to the China model: Political meritocracy and the limits of democracy. Journal of Chinese Humanities, 2018, 4(1): 1–5
Bell, D.A. Vertical democratic meritocracy in China: Response to comments. Journal of Chinese Humanities, 2018, 4(1): 111–123
Bell, D.A. The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2015. ISBN 9781400865505.
Research Projects:
Series editor of a translation series by Princeton University Press that aims to translate the original works of Chinese scholars:
Joseph Chan’s Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times, Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780691158617.
Jiang Qing’s A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future [co-edited with Ruiping Fan, Translated by Edmund Ryden], Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780691154602.
Yan Xuetong’s Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power [co-edited with Sun Zhe, Translated by Edmund Ryden], Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780691148267.
Editor of Confucian Political Ethics (Princeton University Press)
