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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Yi-Chieh Jessica, author.

Series:

Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology.

The Routledge series for creative teaching and learning in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Product counterfeiting--China.

Product counterfeiting.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Brand name products--Social aspects.

Brand name products.

Intellectual property infringement--China.

Intellectual property infringement.

China--Commerce.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (101 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-81753-0

1-136-81754-9

1-283-04023-9

9786613040237

0-203-82975-1

9780203829752

OCLC:

706711395