Tongdong Bai
Professor, Fudan UniversityTongdong Bai is a professor of philosophy at Fudan University in China, and his most recent book in English is Against Political Equality: the Confucian Case (2020).
Articles by Tongdong Bai
Politics
The tyranny of too much democracy: Confucius’s answer
Democracy today has lost some of its shine, with issues such as the rise of right-wing populist parties worrying some. But part of the problem lies in the conflation of two distinct ideas — liberalism and democracy. If the balance between liberalism and democracy needs to be restored, might a Confucian mixed regime be a possible alternative? Chinese academic Tongdong Bai contemplates the question.
Tongdong Bai