CHINA AND THE SARS EXPERIENCE : HOW THE FIRST DISEASE OF THE 21ST CENTURY PROPELLED A NATION FORWARD.

Sammanfattning: In the Spring of 2003, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ripped through China and the world. What it left behind in China was a country greatly improved in terms of social health levels, political transparency, financial stability and quality of life. From an ability to handle future crises and increase in international investor quality, China emerged intact, and improved. This paper outlines the disease, chronology of the outbreak, China's behaviour throughout and argues that global forces once blamed for the outbreak actually should be credited with its eventual control, and that the experience propelled China into the 21st century.