Laikwan Pang: 4 books
Creativity and Its Discontents
China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)–based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored in China. Laikwan Pang argues that the creative economy—in which creativity is an individual asset to be commodified and protected as property—is...
Building a New China in Cinema
The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as...
Cultural Control and Globalization in Asia
Copyright, Piracy and Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This is a succint and well-written book introducing a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of copyright and related issues in contemporary popular culture in relation to the current development of Asian cinema, and questions how copyright is appropriated to regulate culture. It examines the...
The Art of Cloning
Creative Production During China's Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity
In the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dressing identically and even moving in concert like robots. When the Cultural Revolution officially...