id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-258792-4lakgpxp Yoon, Sung‐Won Sovereign Dignity, Nationalism and the Health of a Nation: A Study of China's Response in Combat of Epidemics 2008-04-08 .txt text/plain 7935 341 50 Unless and until the Chinese leadership examines the nationalistic element embedded in their approach towards growing disease Sung-Won Yoon: Sovereign Dignity, Nationalism and the Health of a Nation epidemics and globalising health challenges, China's ascendance to great power status will actually be harmed rather than helped. A major factor behind the government's recent change in its attitude towards the AIDS epidemic seemed to be the outbreak of SARS in China in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism: Vol. 8, No. 1, 2008 2003, which exposed the dangers of not reacting to emerging infectious diseases. It is argued that global health governance may influence the nation's response to the threats posed by emerging infectious diseases such as SARS or AIDS as a mode of building political compromises but does not considerably alter the nation's behaviour, at least for China. ./cache/cord-258792-4lakgpxp.txt ./txt/cord-258792-4lakgpxp.txt