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Wrong Reasons, Right Conclusion: Why China Imitates Western Brands

Global branding, local marketingGenuine IKEA in Hong Kong offers “lucky bamboo”Photo: Danny Friedmann Panos Mourdoukoutas, professor of economics at Long Island University, gives four reasons why China imitates Western brands. See his Forbes article here. Since I do not agree with all … Continue reading

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Why Intellectual Property Rights In China Don’t Come Naturally

I was delighted to receive the learned paper of Charles R. Stone, published in the Marquette Law Review, Vol. 92, p. 199, 2008. It is called ‘What Plagiarism Was Not: Some Preliminary Observations on Classical Chinese Attitudes toward what the … Continue reading

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