Canadian Daniel Bell was educated in Canada and the UK before moving to China 20 years ago. After teaching for a few years, he went on to become the first foreign dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University from 2017 to 2022. What's unusual about this is that Shandong was the birth place of the greatest Chinese philosophers including Confucius and Mencius. What was it like to be the dean of political philosophy in the home land of Confucianism? What insights can he share about China’s academia and politics?