I. CONSTRUCTIONS OF SARS IN HONG KONG
1 Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS / John H. Powers and Gwendolyn Gong, 17
2 A hero story without heroes: The Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS / Xiaosui Xiao, 33
3 "SARS" versus "atypical pneumonia": Inconsistencies in Hong Kong's public health warnings and disease-prevention campaign / Gwendolyn Gong and Sam Dragga, 53
4 Internet press freedom and online crisis reporting: The role of news Web sites in the SARS epidemic / Alice Y. L. Lee, 69
II. CONSTRUCTIONS OF SARS ON THE CHINESE MAINLAND
5 Party journalism vs. market journalism: The coverage of SARS by People's Daily and Beijing Youth News / Huang Xiaoyan and Hao Xiaoming, 93
6 Construction of nationalism and political legitimacy through rhetoric of the anti-SARS campaign: A fantasy theme analysis / Xing Lu, 109
7 SARS discourse as an anti-SARS ideology: The case of Beijing / Hailong Tian, 125
III. CONSTRUCTIONS OF SARS IN SINGAPORE AND TAIWAN
8 "Triumph over adversity": Singapore mobilizes Confucian values to combat SARS / Ian Weber, Tan Howe Yang and Law Loo Shien, 145
9 Singapore at war: SARS and its metaphors / Chris Hudson, 163
10 Reporting an emerging epidemic in Taiwan: Journalists' experiences of SARS coverage / Mei-Ling Hsu, 181
IV. CROSS NATIONAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF SARS
11 Newspaper coverage of the 2003 SARS outbreak / J. Brian Houston, Wen-yu Chao and Sandra Ragan, 203
12 Effects of rationality and story attributes on SARS perception / Shuhua Zhou, Chia-hsin Pan and Xin Zhong, 223