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

by Laikwan Pang

Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)-based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored in 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350823
• ISBN13: 9780822350828
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"