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035 _aJGU
040 _beng
041 _aeng
100 1 _aAlford, William P.
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aTo steal a book is an elegant offense :
_bintellectual property law in Chinese civilization /
_cWilliam P. Alford.
260 _aStanford :
_bStanford University Press,
_c1995.
490 1 _aStudies in East Asian law
520 _a"This study examines the law of intellectual property in China from imperial times to the present. It draws on history, politics, economics, sociology, and the arts, and on interviews with officials, business people, lawyers, and perpetrators and victims of 'piracy'. The author asks why the Chinese, with their early bounty of scientific and artistic creations, are only now devising legal protection for such endeavors and why such protection is more rhetoric than reality on the Chinese mainland. In the process, he sheds light on the complex relation between law and political culture in China. The book goes on to examine recent efforts in the People's Republic of China to develop intellectual property law, and uses this example to highlight the broader problems with China's program of law reform."--
650 0 _aIntellectual property
_zChina
_xHistory.
_91634653
650 0 _aTrademark.
_91634654
650 0 _aInfringement.
_91634655
830 _91634656
_aStudies in East Asian law
999 _c2517241
_d2517241