Organizational Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Reflections on the Chinese Bureaucracy and Its Resilience
反思中国中央和地方政府在武汉封城这一极端措施中展现的官僚体制特征，包括其流程、心态和韧性，对研究危机管理和中国治理的学者有参考价值。
At the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese governments, both central and local, responded to the outbreak in Wuhan, with the drastic measure of the lockdown of the entire city of 11 million residents. The moment of organizational response to crisis crystalized the fundamentals of Chinese bureaucracy, its bureaucratic processes, dispositions, and mentalities, as it had to haphazardly patch together segments of formal and informal practice for mobilization. In this commentary, I reflect on what we have learned about Chinese bureaucracy in this dramatic episode.