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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813950103321

Autore

Lin Yi-Chieh Jessica

Titolo

Fake stuff : China and the rise of counterfeit goods / / Yi-Chieh Jessica Lin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81753-0

1-136-81754-9

1-283-04023-9

9786613040237

0-203-82975-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 p.)

Collana

The Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology

Disciplina

364.16/680951

Soggetti

Product counterfeiting - China

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Brand name products - Social aspects

Intellectual property infringement - China

China Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; SERIES FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE STRUCTURE OF A COUNTERFEIT INDUSTRY; 3 THE MARKET OF COUNTERFEIT GOODS; 4 CONSUMING COUNTERFEIT GOODS; 5 COUNTERFEIT CULTURE AS PROTEST AND REBELLION; 6 CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

""The Anthropology of Stuff"" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each ""Stuff"" title is a short (100 page) ""mini text"" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world. Yi-Chieh Lin reveals how the entrepreneurial energy of emerging marke