The ideological competition between democracy and authoritarianism was supposed to have died with the Cold War. But it has returned with a vengeance, powered above all by the rise of China. Now comes a book by a respected scholar that purports to explain the secrets of the China model, and to show why it works better than liberal democracy. But The China Model is not an account of the real China. Just as Western thinkers for centuries have constructed images of China to wield as weapons in their polemics with one another, so too Bell presents an imaginary China as a rhetorical platform from which to continue a long-standing debate internal to Western political thought—the debate between liberal democracy and communitarianism. His book will mislead any reader who looks to it for an understanding of China. But they proposed that it should be legitimated and organized in such a way as to take account of certain realities: that values vary across cultures, that the individual is socially embedded rather than isolated, and that the welfare of the community is as important to the good life as the welfare of the individual. Bell went to Oxford for his Ph. It is a defense of communitarianism in the form of a charming and sometimes humorous dialogue a form he has used in a number of his other writings. Freedom is important, but more as a means to the good life, including a means to a rich social life.


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Success stories don't come much more Kiwi. Four blokes with nothing more than respectable personal bests to their name, leap into the biggest pond of them all, the Olympics. The foursome, swimming as the New Zealand medley team, stun the sport by making it into the final, and instead of being humbled in the medal race they defy the odds, come within a whisker of making the dais, finishing a creditable fifth. Had the youngest member of the team, the precociously talented junior world champion Daniel Bell, fulfilled his potential that day, they could have become our most unlikely sporting success story.