LEADER 03127 am 22006493u 450 001 9910348219703321 005 20170815123353.0 010 $a981-238-442-1 010 $a1-135-98526-X 010 $a1-135-98527-8 010 $a1-280-70473-X 010 $a9786610704736 010 $a0-203-96769-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203967690 035 $a(CKB)1000000000412021 035 $a(EBL)356186 035 $a(OCoLC)476180865 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000241239 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220947 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241239 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10297539 035 $a(PQKB)10315420 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC356186 035 $a(OCoLC)893194397 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000412021 100 $a20180331d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSARS $ereception and interpretation in three Chinese cities /$fedited by Deborah Davis and Helen Siu 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge contemporary China series ;$v16 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-65162-X 311 $a0-415-77085-8 327 $aBook 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 state 327 $a7. The weakness of a post-authoritarian democratic society: Reflections upon Taiwan's societal crisis during the SARS outbreak8. Epilogue; Index 330 $aSARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high fatality rate and sheer speed at which this disease spread prompted the World Health Organization to initiate a medieval practice of quarantine in the absence of any scientific knowledge of the disease. Now three years on from the initital outbreak, SARS poses no major threat and has vanished from 410 0$aRoutledge contemporary China series ;$v16. 606 $aSARS (Disease)$zChina 606 $aPublic health 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSARS (Disease) 615 0$aPublic health. 676 $a362.196200951 701 $aDavis$b Deborah$f1945-$0254410 701 $aSiu$b Helen F$0883132 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910348219703321 996 $aSARS$91972685 997 $aUNINA