Pang Creativity and Its Discontents

China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9458-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Laikwan Pang offers a complex critical analysis of creativity, creative industries, and the impact of Western copyright laws on creativity in China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pang, Laikwan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Urheberrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part I. Understanding Creativity

1. Creativity as a Problem of Modernity 29

2. Creativity as a Product of Labor 47

3. Creativity as a Construct of Rights 67

Part II. China's Creative Industries and IPR Offenses

4. Cultural Policy, Intellectual Property Rights, and Cultural Tourism 89

5. Cinema as a Creative Industry 113

6. Branding the Creative City with Fine Arts 133

7. Animation and Transcultural Signification 161

8. A Semiotics of the Counterfeit Product 183

9. Imitation or Appropriation Arts? 203

Notes 231

Bibliography 261

Index 289

Über Autor(innen)

Laikwan Pang is Professor of Cultural Studies and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the author of The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China and Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia: Copyright, Piracy, and Cinema.