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List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on transliteration and bibliography -- Introduction : rethinking "the West" -- King Mu (Mu Tianzi) and the journey to the West -- "illusionary" and "realistic" geographies -- Easternizing the West, Westernizing the East -- Chaos and the West -- "Western Territories" (Xiyu), India, and "South Sea" (Nanhai) -- Beyond the seas : other kingdoms and other materials -- Islands, intermediaries, and "Europeanization" -- Conclusion : towards other perspectives of the other -- Postscript -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

West, Matthew Ellis. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-260). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Abstract (in English and Chinese) --- p.ii ; Acknowledgments --- p.iv ; Table of Contents --- p.vi ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction ´ؤ China and Intellectual Property --- p.1 ; Introduction ; What is Intellectual Property? ; Chenggong Music and Movies ; Lost in Translation ; Piracy ; Copying ; An Historical Perspective ; "The Past, Sharing, and Censorship" ; Methodology and Xi'an's Disc Market ; Chapter Breakdown ; Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature Review 一 An Anthropological Approach to IP --- p.37 ; The Anthropology of Property ; Human Rights Discourses ; Economic Pragmatism? ; The Return of Power ; Toward a Theory of IP ; Metaphorical Framing ; Stages of IP Advocacy ; Local Contextualization ; China: Global Pressure and Local Response ; Chapter Chapter 3: --- Daoban as a Moral Business --- p.60 ; The Commoditization of IP ; Price is all that Matters! ; Pricing Practices within Stores ; Pricing Determinants ; Moving Beyond Price and Quality ; Consumer Fraud and Fakes: The Breakdown of Price and Quality ; Competition and the Disc Business ; Is it Zhengban or Daoban? ; Doubting the Difference ; Relative Morality: Guilt and Stealing ; The Ambivalent Position of Chinese Retail Business ; Conclusion: Passive Contestation and the Moral Sphere ; Chapter Chapter 4: --- Daoban as an Illegal Commodity --- p.104 ; Petty Economic Crime ; "Cheating, Plagiarism, and Painting" ; Petty Economic Illegality ; Illegality in China's Context: The Government Connection ; Backing (beijing) ; Corruption ; Structural Issues: Officials and Enforcement ; Policing Norms ; Norms of Copyright Enforcement ; Social Consequences of Enforcement ; Action Against Vendors ; Action Against Pornography ; Justifications and Responses ; Conclusion: Daoban and Illegality ; Chapter Chapter 5: --- Daoban and Intangible Property --- p.155 ; What is Daoban? ; Dowloading and the ...

Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: Language Ideology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong's Qhuab Kev (Showing the Way) / Huang Shu-li -- Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigao in Chinese Ethnic Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning -- The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on the Border of Hunan and Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang -- Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, and Ancestors / Lian Ruizhi -- From Woman's Fertility to Masculine Authority: The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan / Xie Xiaohui -- The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of Native Subjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China / He Xi -- The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor, Connect to the State / David Faure -- The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production and Social Reproduction / James Wilkerson -- Gendering Ritual Community across the Chinese Southwest Borderland / Ho Ts'ui-p'ing.