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Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery: A Case of Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Sichuan, China reviews and evaluates public relations (PR) campaigns launched by the Chinese government to facilitate long-term disaster recovery after the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. The Discourse of Renewal (DR) theory is employed to guide the study and explore how the Chinese government utilized communication to help communities recover from disaster and promote community growth. Steered by the co-creational perspective, this book also examines the influence of PR campaigns on the public's situation awareness, attitude agreement, perceived care and concern, and ultimately the public's relationship with the Chinese government in renewal. In addition to developing and testing a DR evaluation model, this study investigates the communication obstacles that constrain the effectiveness of DR. In-depth interviews, content analysis, and surveys are conducted to analyze the themes, characteristics, effectiveness, and barriers of the campaigns. The findings of Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery include that (1) DR theory, which has heretofore been developed and applied mainly in Western culture, can inform the study of crisis communication in an Eastern culture, especially in China, (2) DR employed in government campaigns can be very powerful in achieving PR goals in crisis renewal, and (3) imbalanced deployment of campaign resources can affect the outcome of DR. This book also discusses the implications of utilizing these findings to better plan and implement long-term DR campaigns. "Building Effective Crisis Communications for Disaster Recovery is a timely and important tribute to the 10th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake. Through a co-creational lens and painstaking analysis of interview, document, and community survey data, this book shows convincingly that the Discourse of Renewal theory can be productively used to dissect and appraise post-disaster public relations campaigns conducted by the Chinese government and other entities. This is a must-read for researchers and students interested in crisis communication in general and the role of PR in disaster relief and post-disaster community rebuilding in particular." -Xiaoquan Zhao, Associate Professor, George Mason University "There have been many crisis communication case studies written. Few, however, can match the scope or the insight of Hu Yue's book, particularly its use of in-depth interviewing, content analysis, and survey. Hu's work is insightful and rigorous, applying both Discourse of Renewal theory and the co-creational model to examine how three levels of the Chinese government used public relations techniques to respond to the devastating Wenchuan earthquake of 2008 and helped earthquake-hit communities recover." -Carl Botan, Professor of Communication, George Mason University

Earthquake relief --- Crisis management --- Communication in crisis management --- Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008.

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The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 87,000 people and left 5 million homeless. In response to the devastation, an unprecedented wave of volunteers and civic associations streamed into Sichuan to offer help. The Politics of Compassion examines how civically engaged citizens acted on the ground, how they understood the meaning of their actions, and how the political climate shaped their actions and understandings. Using extensive data from interviews, observations, and textual materials, Bin Xu shows that the large-scale civic engagement was not just a natural outpouring of compassion, but also a complex social process, both enabled and constrained by the authoritarian political context. While volunteers expressed their sympathy toward the affected people's suffering, many avoided explicitly talking about the causes of the suffering—particularly in the case of the collapse of thousands of schools. Xu shows that this silence and apathy is explained by a general inability to discuss politically sensitive issues while living in a repressive state. This book is a powerful account of how the widespread death and suffering caused by the earthquake illuminates the moral-political dilemma faced by Chinese citizens and provides a window into the world of civic engagement in contemporary China.

Civil society --- Political participation --- Voluntarism --- Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008. --- Great Sichuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Sichuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Earthquakes --- Voluntary action --- Volunteer work --- Volunteering --- Volunteerism --- National service --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- China --- Politics and government --- Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- S11/0497 --- S20/1030 --- China: Social sciences--Society since 1976 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Earthquakes --- Wenchuan Earthquake (China : 2008)

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"The Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: An anatomy of disaster" gives a detailed account of the damage, seismology and tectonics of the event and discusses earthquake prediction, seismic hazard and risk management, the creation and implementation of building codes, and new practices used in rescue, relief and reconstruction. It will be of significant interest to researchers and practitioners engaged in seismology, geophysics, engineering, the social sciences, and disaster management and recovery. It also offers a valuable new and uniquely Chinese perspective with many insights for future mitigation of earthquake risk. Professor Yong Chen works for the China Earthquake Administration; Dr David C. Booth works for the British Geological Survey.

Disaster. --- Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Earthquakes --- Seismology --- Geography --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008. --- Quakes (Earthquakes) --- Great Sichuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Sichuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Earth sciences. --- Natural disasters. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Physical geography. --- Engineering geology. --- Engineering --- Foundations. --- Hydraulics. --- Environmental management. --- Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics. --- Environmental Management. --- Physical Geography. --- Geology. --- Earth movements --- Natural disasters --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Engineering—Geology. --- Flow of water --- Water --- Hydraulic engineering --- Jets --- Architecture --- Building --- Structural engineering --- Underground construction --- Caissons --- Earthwork --- Masonry --- Soil consolidation --- Soil mechanics --- Walls --- Civil engineering --- Geology, Economic --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Flow --- Distribution --- Details --- Geology --- Wenchuan Xian (Sichuan Sheng, China) --- History. --- 汶川县 (Sichuan Sheng, China) --- Wen-chʻuan hsien (Sichuan Sheng, China) --- Wun-khron-rdzoṅ (Sichuan Sheng, China)

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The M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake occurred in China on May 12, 2008, killing over 69,000 people and displacing millions from their homes. This was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters on record. This book includes 5 chapters describing the tectonic setting and historical earthquakes around the Chuan-Dian region, the nucleation of the Wenchuan earthquake, occurrence and aftershocks. The field observations of earthquake induced surface fractures and building damage, form a major and special part of this book and include a large number of digital photos with accompanying explanations.

Wenchuan Earthquake, China, 2008 --- Geology, Structural --- Geology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Dynamic & Structural Geology --- Earthquakes. --- Earth movements. --- Quakes (Earthquakes) --- Earth sciences. --- Structural geology. --- Computers. --- Physical geography. --- Popular works. --- Earth Sciences. --- Structural Geology. --- Models and Principles. --- Physical Geography. --- Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. --- Popular Science, general. --- Natural disasters --- Sedimentation and deposition --- Earth movements --- Seismology --- Geology, Structural. --- Computer science. --- Science (General). --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Geography --- Informatics --- Science --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Physical geology --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Measurement --- Monitoring