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Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their cus...
Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
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 Scho...
Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age
A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thought Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been ov...
Political Thinking for an East Asian Context
Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style libe...
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" demo...
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Many have criticized liberalism for being too individualist, but few have offered an alternative that goes beyond a vague affirmation of the need for ...
Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World
A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All complex and large-scale societies are organ...
Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia
Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of "Asian values" argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western...
Essays and Sociological Journeys 1960-1980
Originally published by Abt Books in 1980, this book brings together most of Daniel Bell's best work in his second career as a sociologist. The essays...