Coronavirus Disease (Covid19), originating in Wuhan in China and spreading to the rest of the country and the world, is a defining moment in the current human history. By midJuly, it affected over 13 million, consummated over a halfamillion lives, disrupted the socioeconomic fabric of many countries and began mutating into a 2nd or 3rd phases. China has been at the centre of this process, although now other countries have taken its place in this tragic contagious epidemic. This volume, written by China experts, is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary and area studies` evaluation of China`s domestic and external dimensions of handling the Covid19.

Covid19 in all likelihood will go down in human history as one of the most decisive events in terms of its global scale, the unprecedented fear that it generated across vast swathes of the world, the kind of economic destruction that it        inflicted across the board, barring a few sectors (such as pharmaceuticals and environment) and for the comprehensive dislocation it brough about, including in the regional and global orders. An estimated three billion people are in some form or the other of lockdown in the nooks and corners of the world so as to break the chain of contagion.