Gwendolyn Gong
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gwendolyn Gong plays a role.
Articles
3. "SARS" versus "atypical pneumonia": Inconsistencies in Hong Kong's public health warnings and disease-prevention campaign The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. and Xiaosui Xiao (eds.), pp. 53–68 | Article
2008 When Hong Kong first reported cases of SARS, the government developed a public health campaign to warn and educate the local community and international travelers about the highly-contagious disease. Unfortunately, concern that the similarity of the acronyms for the Hong Kong Special Administrative… read more
1. Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. and Xiaosui Xiao (eds.), pp. 17–31 | Article
2008 This chapter identifies five significant interpretive frames which operated in Hong Kong and southern China as the SARS crisis developed in spring 2003. These five frames treated SARS, respectively, as (a) a state secret of the Chinese provincial officials, (b) a scientific mystery to be solved by… read more