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This book analyzes the ways in which the Chinese government and military responded to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province. It adopts a comparative and historical perspective in studying the responses of the Chinese government in the first critical 72 hours, the mobilization of the People's Liberation Army and its difficulties, the assertive and important role of the non-governmental groups which established a partnership with the state in the rescue operations, and the process and politics of reconstruction. The book is rich in materials, including comparative case studies of the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, the outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, the earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and Myanmar, and the contrasts with the Japanese earthquake tsunami in 2011. Researchers, government officials, policy analysts, seismic specialists, journalists and students will find this book extremely useful, conceptually insightful and practically policy-relevant.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Politics of Crisis Management in China
• Subtitle: The Sichuan Earthquake
• Author: Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 162
• EAN: 9780739139523
• ISBN: 0739139525
• ID: 05134275
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Weight: 396 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 155 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. November 2014

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