The Dean of Shandong (Daniel A. Bell)

This audiobook narrated by Wyntner Woody provides 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.

Author:: Daniel A. Bell
Narrator:: Wynt Woody
Content:: Unabridged (chapter list)
Length:: 5:41 h
Format:: MP3 download (248 MB)
Language:: English
Publisher:: Princeton University Press (2023)
Genre:: Politics & Current Affairs
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01 - Opening Anno, Quote by Feng Tao, Dedication	1:01	1 MB
02 - Introduction	45:05	32 MB
03 - Chapter 1, Dye and Dynamism	18:36	13 MB
04 - Chapter 2, The Harmony Secretary	32:16	23 MB
05 - Chapter 3, On Collective Leadership	41:17	29 MB
06 - Chapter 4, What s Wrong With Corruption	19:10	14 MB
07 - Chapter 5, Drinking Without Limits	24:40	17 MB
08 - Chapter 6, Teaching Confucianism in China	20:27	15 MB
09 - Chapter 7, The Communist Comeback	21:55	16 MB
10 - Chapter 8, Censorship, Formal and Informal	47:09	34 MB
11 - Chapter 9, Academic Meritocracy, Chinese	22:58	16 MB
12 - Chapter 10, A Critique of Cuteness	23:08	16 MB
13 - Chapter 11, The Case for Symbolic Leadership, Closing Anno	24:15	16 MB

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This audiobook narrated by Wyntner Woody provides 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.

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