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COMMUNICATING HEALTH-RELATED RISK AND CRISIS IN CHINA
State of the Field and Ways Forward
Zixue Tai, Zhian Zhang, and Lifeng Deng
Introduction: The Coming of Risk Society in China
Breakneck economic growth in the past three decades or so in China has ushered in an era of unprecedented prosperity in the country. Simultaneous developments on multiple fronts—including increasing technological advancement, further marketization, rapid urbanization, large-scale industrialization, and growing integration with the global society—have disentangled the milieu of forces turning contemporary Chinese society into one that bears resemblance to the risk society as conceptualized by Ulrich Beck (1992). It is no accident that the Chinese version of Beck’s ...
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