Pirates and Publishers : : A Social History of Copyright in Modern China / / Fei-Hsien Wang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Wang, Fei-Hsien,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Histories of Economic Life ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 14 b/w illus. 8 tables

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, during a t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. The Curious Journey of "Copyright" in East Asia
• 2. The Business of "New Learning"
• 3. "The Everlasting Reward for My Labor of Mind" the
• 4. Between Privilege and Property
• 5. The "Copyright" Regime of Chessboard Street
• 6. Hunting Pirates in Beiping
• 7. A World without Piracy?
• Conclusion
• Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Terms, Titles, and Names
• Selected Bibliography
• Index