Daniel Bell was born in Montreal, educated at McGill and Oxford, has taught in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and held research fellowships at Princeton and Stanford. He is currently Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholar Program at Tsinghua University, Beijing
In this lecture he will outline the thesis of his most recent book, The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy, in which he argues that China has developed a genuinely new approach to governance, rooted in its long history and at odds with the western concept that electoral democracy is the only legitimate form of government. He will look at the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese meritocracy, how it might be reformed and what the West might learn from the Chinese approach to governance.

Note: Daniel Bell will also be giving a public lecture at Carleton University on October 2 at 3:00 in Paterson 303. All are welcome.