Daniel A. Bell (贝淡宁) is from Montreal and was educated at McGill University and Oxford University. He has held teaching posts in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and has held research fellowships at Princeton, Stanford, and Hebrew University. He is currently Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University (Qingdao) and Professor at Tsinghua University (Schwarzman College and Department of Philosophy) His books include The China Model, China’s New Confucianism, Beyond Liberal Democracy, East Meets West, and The Spirit of Cities (co-authored with Avner de-Shalit), all published by Princeton University Press, as well as Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford, 1993). His latest book (co-authored with Wang Pei) Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World was published by Princeton University Press in March 2020. He is founding editor of the Princeton-China series. He writes frequently for leading media outlets such as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, and his works have been translated in 23 languages. He has been interviewed in English, Chinese, and French. In 2018, he was awarded the Huilin Prize and was honored as a “Cultural Leader” by the World Economic Forum. In 2019 he was awarded the Special Book Award of China.