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Daniel A. Bell is dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University in Qingdao. He is co-author, with Wang Pei, of Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World (2020).
Just Hierarchy
Chinese social hierarchies help to explain the country’s failure—and success—in coping with Covid.