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This book is a study, within a Marxist theoretical framework, of how public crises shape citizens’sense of civic responsibilities. Given the main features of modern public crises and the nature of public discourse (especially in the Chinese language) about the subject, and by comparing the Chinese with the western conceptualization of “civic responsibility”, the author tries to gain a deeper understanding of its manifestations within the Chinese context.Through conceptual analysis, the author offers his insights about the logical prerequisite and justification for the establishment of civic responsibilities, and what role it can play, both in theory and in practice, in the prevention and dissolution of public crises.