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Daniel Bell, Professor of Political Philosophy

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Daniel Bell, born in Montreal, Canada, is professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has also taught in Singapore and Hong Kong and has held research fellowships at Princeton and Stanford.

He is the author of, among other books, China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society (Princeton University Press, 2008). He is also the editor of Confucian Political Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2007) and the co-editor of six books. He also writes on Chinese politics and philosophy for Du Shu, Dissent, Newsweek, and the Guardian's "Comment Is Free" blog.

He obtained a BA in Psychology at McGill University in 1985. He also obtained an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University.

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