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    [synopsis] => "A Financial Times Best Summer Book" "A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Politics" Daniel A. Bell is Chair Professor of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean at Shandong University's School of Political Science and Public Administration from 2017 to 2022. He is the author of The China Model, Just Hierarchy (with Wang Pei), Beyond Liberal Democracy, China's New Confucianism (all Princeton), and other books. 
	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 School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University-the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history. In The Dean of Shandong, Bell chronicles his experiences as what he calls "a minor bureaucrat," offering an inside account of the workings of Chinese academia and what they reveal about China's political system. It wasn't all smooth sailing-Bell wryly recounts sporadic bungles and misunderstandings-but Bell's post as dean provides a unique vantage point on China today.

Bell, neither a Chinese citizen nor a member of the Chinese Communist Party, was appointed as dean because of his scholarly work on Confucianism-but soon found himself coping with a variety of issues having little to do with scholarship or Confucius. These include the importance of hair color and the prevalence of hair-dyeing among university administrators, both male and female; Shandong's drinking culture, with endless toasts at every shared meal; and some unintended consequences of an intensely competitive academic meritocracy. As dean, he also confronts weightier matters: the role at the university of the Party secretary, the national anticorruption campaign and its effect on academia (Bell asks provocatively, "What's wrong with corruption?"), and formal and informal modes of censorship. Considering both the revival of Confucianism in China over the last three decades and what he calls "the Communist comeback" since 2008, Bell predicts that China's political future is likely to be determined by both Confucianism and Communism. "Bell places the minutiae of academic administration in the context of China's post-Cultural Revolution attempt to reinstate a 'complex bureaucratic system informed by the ideal of political meritocracy.' His depiction of this goal's uneven achievement is enriched by anecdotes about censorship, corruption, the importance of seemingly frivolous aesthetic matters, Shandong's drinking culture, and the occasionally comic failures of Chinese institutions to convey their aims abroad." "Fascinating insight into life in China from the perspective of a non-Chinese academic. Bell offers a frank assessment of the realities of being a scholar in China. . . . Highly recommended for anyone interested in academia in present-day China." "The Dean of Shandong wonderfully weaves together Bell's deep knowledge of Chinese thought, political institutions, and everyday life in an extremely accessible style."---Paul J. D'Ambrosio, Los Angeles Review of Books "An insightful memoir of the author's time as an administrator at a Chinese university. . . .at times frank, perceptive and wryly amusing. . . .those like Bell who write about [China] with wit and insight, deserve to be listened to."---James Crabtree, Financial Times "[A] terrific book. . . . [The Dean of Shandong] is a very entertaining and insightful short memoir of what it's like to run part of a university, being neither a Chinese citizen nor a member of the Party, and having to deal with issues that are the kind of issues that administrators all over the world deal with - drinking, for example, not just by students, but mostly by administrators, and other issues as well. . .  Dean of Shandong is a cool book."---William Kirby, The Sinica Podcast "[Bell] wants to encourage "under
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    [subtitle] => Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
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