03127 am 22006493u 450 991034821970332120170815123353.0981-238-442-11-135-98526-X1-135-98527-81-280-70473-X97866107047360-203-96769-010.4324/9780203967690 (CKB)1000000000412021(EBL)356186(OCoLC)476180865(SSID)ssj0000241239(PQKBManifestationID)11220947(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241239(PQKBWorkID)10297539(PQKB)10315420(MiAaPQ)EBC356186(OCoLC)893194397(EXLCZ)99100000000041202120180331d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSARS reception and interpretation in three Chinese cities /edited by Deborah Davis and Helen SiuNew York :Routledge,2006.1 online resource (193 p.)Routledge contemporary China series ;16Description based upon print version of record.0-415-65162-X 0-415-77085-8 Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. SARS: Reception and interpretations in three Chinese cities; 2. Global connectivity and local politics: SARS, talk radio, and public opinion; 3. Sars, avian flu, and the urban double take; 4. Eulogy and practice: Public professionals and private lives; 5. Artistic responses to SARS: Footprints in the local and global realms of cyberspace; 6. SARS humor for the virtual community: Between the Chinese emerging public sphere and the authoritarian state7. The weakness of a post-authoritarian democratic society: Reflections upon Taiwan's societal crisis during the SARS outbreak8. Epilogue; IndexSARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has vanished from Routledge contemporary China series ;16.SARS (Disease)ChinaPublic healthElectronic books.SARS (Disease)Public health.362.196200951Davis Deborah1945-254410Siu Helen F883132MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910348219703321SARS1972685UNINA