Indeed, SARS appears to have prompted a national discourse on the interrelationship between infectious diseases and non-traditional security inside China. This is evidenced by the vast amount of literature on the subject of non-traditional security issues generated by Chinese scholars since the SARS outbreak. Using`^ ßh(fei chuantong anquan, non-traditional security)'' to search for articles contained in a database known as``China Academic Journals Full-text Database: Economics, Politics and Law (Zhongguo qikan quanwen shujuku: jingji, zhengzhi yu falu È zhuandang, -ýhpn: ÏN ?»Õc),'' there are barely anỳ`n on traditional security'' articles published before the SARS outbreak. However, subsequent to the outbreak it became a flourishing subject in China's scholarly world. Among the articles that includè`n on-traditional security'' in their titles since the start of economic reforms in 1979, more than 95% of them were published after 2003 (see Figure 1) .