Bøger af Laikwan Pang

Laikwan Pang offers a complex critical analysis of creativity, creative industries, and the impact of Western copyright laws on creativity in China.

An exploration of the history, ideology and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. The author demonstrates that the movement was a product of the era's social, economic and political discourses.

Challenges that Hollywood/the US creates, produces and exports, with other countries importing, and sometimes pirating 'original' American work. This book focuses on the cinema of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and argues that cultural ownership and copyright are not clear-cut, and that copyright is a means for cultural control.