Daniel Bell, born in Montreal, Canada, is Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He obtained a B.A. from the Department of Psychology at McGill University, Canada in 1985, then obtained an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, UK. His mother tongue is French and can speak Mandarin Chinese and read modern and ancient Chinese fluently, as well as read in Spanish. He is the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), East Meets West (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), and Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2006). He is the co-author (with David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya, and David Martin Jones) of Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia (Oxford: St.Antony's College; New York: St. Martin's, 1995). He is the co-editor (with Joanne Bauer) of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), (with Avner de-Shalit) Forms of Justice: Critical Perspectives on David Miller's Political Philosophy (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), (with Hahm Chaibong) Confucianism for the Modern World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), (with Hahm Chaihark) The Politics of Affective Relations: East Asia and Beyond (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004). He is also the editor of Confucian Political Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2006) and Ethics in Action (New York: Cambridge University Press; United Nations University Press, forthcoming 2006).