‘China Who Makes and Fakes’: A Semiotics of the Counterfeit

Theory, Culture & Society

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 117-140

  Pang, Laikwan ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; copying; creativity; intellectual property rights; mimesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149097352     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276408095547     Document Type: Article

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