The Dean of Shandong

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year 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 acade