The politics of piracy : intellectual property in contemporary China / Andrew Mertha.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Foreign pressure and China's IPR regime -- 2. The structure and process of exogenous pressure -- 3. Patents and Faux consolidation of China's administrative patent regime -- 4. The copyright problem -- 5. Trademarks and anticounterfeiting -- 6. Evaluating the argument and analysis -- 7. Casting a wider net.

"China is by far the world's leading producer of pirated goods - from films and books to clothing, from consumer electronics to aircraft parts. As China becomes a full participant in the international economy, its inability to enforce intellectual property rights is coming under escalating international scrutiny." "Andrew C. Mertha shows that while the sustained pressure of state-to-state negotiations has shaped China's patent and copyright laws, it has had little direct impact on the enforcement of those laws. By contrast, sustained pressure from inside China, on the part of foreign trademark-owners and private investigation companies in their employ, provides a far greater rate of trademark enforcement and spurs action from anti-counterfeiting agencies."--BOOK JACKET.