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 an intensification of Western modernity and capitalism at odds with key aspects of Chinese culture. Nevertheless, globalization has compelled China to undertake endeavors involving intellectual property rights. Pang examines China's IPR-compliant industries, as well as its numerous...

Examines the far-reaching implications of intellectual property rights protections in a nation that until the early 1980s forbid all ownership of private property, whether tangible or intellectual.

The first of its kind in English to explore the musical culture of China's Cultural Revolution, Listening to China's Cultural Revolution discusses the history, politics, and aesthetics of a full range of music and performances during this rich yet complicated time in Chinese history. Together, the chapters, grouped under the headings "Temporality, ' 'Geography, ' and 'Lineage and Legacies, ' demonstrate how the era's soundscape was both political and personal, experienced by ordinary people, artists, as well as political leaders, and how the sensory was translated into political actions or...