The SARS epidemic :: challenges to China's crisis management /

In the first half of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) struck China (including Hong Kong), causing panic and claiming manylives. The unknown nature of SARS at that time also jolted theeconomic growth of China and Hong Kong, disrupted the social life oftheir citizens and created much str...

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Weitere Verfasser: Wong, John, 1939-, Zheng, Yongnian
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Singapore ; Hong Kong : World Scientific, ©2004.
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Zusammenfassung:In the first half of 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) struck China (including Hong Kong), causing panic and claiming manylives. The unknown nature of SARS at that time also jolted theeconomic growth of China and Hong Kong, disrupted the social life oftheir citizens and created much stress and strain for their politicalsystems and governance. Like other major crises, the management of theSARS crisis provides a good opportunity to examine the strengths andweaknesses of the political systems in China and Hong Kong. From theoutset, scholars at the East Asian Institute (EAI) followed c.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vii, 226 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9812565558
9789812565556
9789812389480
9812389482
1281877069
9781281877062
9786611877064
6611877061

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