Creativity and Its Discontents: China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses

‘Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)—based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored by China. Laikwan Pang argues that the creative economy—in which creativity is an individual asset to be commodified and protected as property—is an intensification of Western modernity and capitalism at odds with key aspects of Chinese culture. Nevertheless, globalization has compelled China to undertake endeavors involving intellectual property rights. [...] Pang argues that piracy and counterfeiting embody the intimate connection between creativity and copying. She points to the lack of copyright protections for Japanese anime as the motor of China’s dynamic anime culture. Theorizing the relationship between knockoffs and appropriation art, Pang offers an incisive interpretation of China’s flourishing art scene.’ (excerpt from back cover)

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Onsite

author

PANG Laikwan, 彭麗君

publisher

Duke University Press (Durham, United States)

Location code

REF.PLK

Language

English

Keyword

creative industries, China

Publication/Creation date

2012

No of pages

299

ISBN / ISSN

9780822350828

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

I Understanding Creativity

Creativity as a Problem of Modernity

Creativity as a Product of Labor

Creativity as a Construct of Rights

II China's Creative Industries and IPR Offenses

Cultural Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, and Cultural Tourism

Cinema as a Creative Industry

Branding the Creative City with Fine Arts

Animation and Transcultural Signification

A Semiotics of the Counterfeit Product

Imitation or Appropriation Arts?

Creativity and Its Discontents: China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offense

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