Chinese government’s role in crisis management: case studies of three major crises in recent years

Unrestricted This thesis used media analysis to examine the role of the Chinese government in crisis management. Through the comparison of the three major public crises in the past few years, namely the 2003 SARS crisis, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the 2008 baby milk powder crisis, the author sought to identify the consistencies, the differences and the trends in the Chinese government’s application of crisis management and crisis communication.