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111. Introduction: One Size Doesn’t Fit AllIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-20. 2006.
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167. Is Democracy the “Least Bad” System for Minority Groups?In Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 180-205. 2006.
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11IndexIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 369-379. 2006.
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233. Human Rights and “Values in Asia”: Reflections on East-West DialoguesIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 52-83. 2006.
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45Li, Chenyang,The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony: London and New York: Routledge, 2014, xvi + 197 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 14 (1): 143-146. 2015.
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462. Just War and Confucianism: Implications for the Contemporary WorldIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 23-51. 2006.
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10Human Rights and Social Criticism in Contemporary Chinese Political TheoryPolitical Theory 32 (3): 396-408. 2004.
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1210. East Asian Capitalism in an Age of GlobalizationIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 255-280. 2006.
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110Democracy with chinese characteristics: A political proposal for the post-communist eraPhilosophy East and West 49 (4): 451-493. 1999.Interviews Professor Wang, a political philosopher at Beijing University about the political reforms in China. Explanation on a democratic political system with Chinese characteristics; Confucian tradition of respect for a ruling intellectual elite; Relevance of Confucian scholar Huang Zongxi's proposal for reform
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158. Democratic Education in a Multicultural Context: Lessons from SingaporeIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 206-228. 2006.
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47Chen, Lai, Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View Trans. Edmund Ryden : Leiden: Brill, 2009, x + 386 pagesDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10 (3): 391-393. 2011.
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79. Culture and Egalitarian Development: Confucian Constraints on Property RightsIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. pp. 231-254. 2006.
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73Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian ContextPrinceton University Press. 2006.Is liberal democracy appropriate for East Asia? In this provocative book, Daniel Bell argues for morally legitimate alternatives to Western-style liberal democracy in the region. Beyond Liberal Democracy, which continues the author's influential earlier work, is divided into three parts that correspond to the three main hallmarks of liberal democracy--human rights, democracy, and capitalism. These features have been modified substantially during their transmission to East Asian societies that ha…Read more
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88A Communitarian Critique of LiberalismAnalyse & Kritik 27 (2): 215-238. 2005.Communitarian thinkers have argued that liberalism devalues community in modern societies. This essay assesses the three main strands of the contemporary debate betweeen communitarianism and liberalism: (1) the communitarian critique of the liberal universalism, (2) the communitarian critique of liberal individualism, and (3) the communitarian critique of liberal politics. In each case, it is argued that the debate has moved from fairly abstract philosophical controversies to more concrete engag…Read more
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46Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion by Henry Rosemont JrPhilosophy East and West 67 (2): 565-568. 2017.Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion by Henry Rosemont Jr. is an important challenge to the dominant individualistic ethos of our age. It is not merely a critique of the idea of the rights-claiming, free and autonomous individual: Rosemont also puts forward a strong defense of an alternative idea of the relational person as role-bearing, interrelated, and necessarily responsible to other persons. I am generally sympathetic t…Read more
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10Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs. It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions …Read more
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82War, Peace, and China's Soft Power: A Confucian ApproachDiogenes 56 (1): 26-40. 2009.The contemporary Chinese intellectual Kang Xiaoguang has argued that Chinese soft power should be based on Confucian culture, the most influential Chinese political tradition. But which Confucian values should form the core of China’s soft power? This paper first explores the coexistence of state sovereignty and utopian cosmopolitanism through an analysis of Confucian tradition up to contemporary Chinese nationalism. It insists on the exogenous roots of the cosmopolitan ideal and its relations w…Read more
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10Forms of Justice: Critical perspectives on David Miller’s political philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2003.A distinguished group of political philosophers takes Miller's theory as a starting point and debates whether justice takes one form or many. Drawing real world implications from theories of justice and examining in depth social justice, national justice, and global justice, this book falls on the cutting edge of the latest developments in political theory. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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26The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.The rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The result is the first book in decades to examine the rise of politica…Read more
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2Confucianism for the Modern World (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.While Confucian ideals continue to inspire thinkers and political actors, discussions of concrete Confucian practices and institutions appropriate for the modern era have been conspicuously absent from the literature thus far. This volume represents the most cutting edge effort to spell out in meticulous detail the relevance of Confucianism for the contemporary world. The contributors to this book - internationally renowned philosophers, lawyers, historians, and social scientists - argue for fea…Read more
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2AcknowledgmentsIn Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context, Princeton University Press. 2006.
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105Book Review: Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences (review)Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 57 (1): 102-103. 2003.
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67Catholic Ethicists on HIV/Aids Prevention: Edited by J F Keenan SJ. Continuum, 2000, US$24.95, pp 351. ISBN 0826412300 (review)Journal of Medical Ethics 28 (1): 59-60. 2002.
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