Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Constructions of SARS in Hong Kong
5. 1. Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS 17
6. 2. A hero story without heroes: The Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS 33
7. 3. "SARS" versus "atypical pneumonia": Inconsistencies in Hong Kong's public health warnings and disease-prevention campaign 53
8. 4. Internet press freedom and online crisis reporting: The role of news web sites in the SARS epidemic 69
9. Part II. Constructions of SARS on the Chinese mainland
10. 5. Party journalism vs. market journalism: The coverage of SARS by the People's Daily and Beijing Youth News 93
11. 6. Construction of nationalism and political legitimacy through rhetoric of the anti-SARS campaign: A fantasy theme analysis 109
12. 7. SARS discourse as an anti-SARS ideology: The case of Beijing 125
13. Part III. Constructions of SARS in Singapore and Taiwan
14. 8. "Triumph over adversity": Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS 145
15. 9. Singapore at war: SARS and its metaphors 163
16. 10. Reporting an emerging epidemic in Taiwan: Journalists' experiences of SARS coverage 181
17. Part IV. Cross national constructions of SARS
18. 11. Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak 203
19. 12. Effects of rationality and story attributes on perceptions of SARS perception 223
20. Index 241