China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao

ABSTRACT

[...]the book concludes with an observation that the key features of the emergency disciplinary state, that is, top-down leadership, control over the bureaucratic system, and horizontal grassroots social organizations, have continued to operate in China's responses to SARS and COVID-19. Despite the limitation, the idea of the emergency disciplinary state sheds much-needed light on understanding China's distinctive style of public health emergency management during COVID-19. [...]as increased globalization sped up the spread of COVID-19, the Chinese government formulated international travel restrictions to slow the spread elsewhere in the world and implemented control measures to contain transmission from imported cases.