Xiaosui Xiao

List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiaosui Xiao is involved.

Title

The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis

Edited by John H. Powers and Xiaosui Xiao

When the SARS virus began its spread from southern China around the world in spring 2003, it caught regional and international health officials by surprise. The SARS epidemic itself lasted for only a few months, whereas its treatment, in communicative terms, keeps providing us with important… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 30] 2008. vi, 242 pp.

Article

Xiao, Xiaosui 2008 2. A hero story without heroes: The Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health communication crisis, Powers, John H. and Xiaosui Xiao (eds.), pp. 33–52 | Article

This essay addresses a significant question in crisis communication: how should a government perform its role as the official “public narrator” in times of grave disaster? In particular, how should it report its own course of action during and after the crisis? These questions proved to be… read more