Daniel Bell: The China Model

Book launch with Daniel Bell in the Copenhagen bookstore, Tranquebar organized by The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

Daniel A. Bell has written a controversial book, The China Model, hard to digest for many Western readers, as he is questioning what most people in our part of the world see as fundamental truths. For all those who are interested in the rise of China, and interested in trying to understand society and politics in the Middle Kingdom, Bell is providing ideas that are timely, relevant, highly original, and hugely important to consider. He is furthermore among the few scholars who are able to present complicated issues in a plain and fascinating way, easy to follow and thus interesting, also for non-specialists.

Daniel A. Bell is Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholar Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing and director of the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture. He was born in Montreal, educated at McGill and Oxford, has taught in Singapore and Hong Kong, and has held research fellowships at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.