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Sars: Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities book cover

1st Edition

Sars Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities

Edited By Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu Copyright 2007
192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

SARS (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... Read more

1. SARS: Reception and Interpretations  Deborah Davis and Helen Siu  2. Global Connectivity and Local Politics: SARS, Talk Radio, and Public Opinion  Eric Kit-wai Ma and Joseph Man Chan  3. Sars, Avian Flu and the Urban Double Take  John Nguyet Erni  4. Eulogy and Practice: Public Professionals and Private Lives  Helen Siu and Jane Chan  5. Artistic Responses to SARS: Footprints in the Local and Global Realms of Cyberspace  Abby Newman  6. SARS Humor for the Virtual Community  Hong Zhang  7. Taiwan's Social Crisis during the SARS Outbreak: Legacy of Authoritarianism  Yun Fan and Ming-chi Chen  8. Epilogue  Christine Loh

Biography

Deborah Davis is Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA.

Helen Sui is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, USA.

'Wide-ranging and novel in its academic approach, it certainly adds to the field of useful knowledge.' - Felix Greaves, Asian Affairs
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