SARS from East to West is the production of international collaboration investigating the first major pandemic in the new millennium, SARS. As the only major outbreak of a deadly infectious disease in modern times, the SARS case is an excellent example of an emerging contagious disease in an interdependent and interconnected world and provided the bases for how subsequent pandemics, like the bird flu and swine flu, are viewed and managed.

Eva-Karin Olsson and Lan Xue bring together crisis management scholars with genuine knowledge of the geographic area covered in each of the chapters to examine the response to the SARS crisis at national and international levels, as well as media analysis.

Contributions by: Logan Atkinson, Stephanie Buus, Joan Deppa, Edward Deverell, Dan Markel, Andrew Seaberg, Simon Shen, Eric K. Stern, Christopher Stoney, Grace Han Yao, Kaibin Zhong, Qin Zhu