Abstract: The complexity of trans-boundary public crises determines the need to construct an actor network for effective governance, and the Actor Network theory provides a new interpretive framework for it. The multiple actors in the actor network of trans-boundary public crisis governance have different roles: the government as the ultimate undertaker of responsibility, the army as the vanguard in the response to catastrophe, enterprises as providers of emergency products, social organizations as important supplementary forces and citizens as key supporters. At the same time, the multiple actors have different action logic in the actor network of trans-boundary public crisis governance: the government is driven by responsibility and achievements, the army by cooperation under the military-civilian parallel relationship, the enterprises by social responsibility under the profit-seeking orientation, social organizations as self-organizing mechanisms by public value, and citizens by rational and public spirit of “economic man”. Different action logic of multiple actors results in different interactive relationships, mainly between the central government and local governments, between local governments and enterprises, between local governments and social organizations, and between local governments and citizens, social subjects and citizens. Following the general law of actor network construction, we propose specific strategies for actor network construction of cross-border public crisis governance in accordance with different stages of translation: setting up common goals at the stage of problem emergence, establishing interest coordination mechanism at the stage of interest assignment, and forming a community of responsibility at the stage of recruitment and mobilization.

Key words: trans-boundary public crisis, actor network theory, actor, translation, network, role orientation, action logic