Thought-provoking new book – The China Model by Daniel Bell
(Princeton University Press provides access to the Introduction section)
FT’s Gideon Rachman in his review of the book notes
“The China Model will
upset liberals in China and outrage mainstream opinion in the west. Some will
see it as little more than a justification for one-party rule and political
repression. But it is part of the job of academics to ask fundamental questions
that challenge conventional thinking. Bell performs this role admirably in
lucid, jargon-free prose that leads the reader back to some of the most
fundamental questions in political philosophy — refracted through the
experience of contemporary China.”