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Framing Piracy is the first book to systematically examine film distribution—legal and illegal—in the largest and mostly untapped market in the world: Greater China. Tracing networks of optical disc (VCD, DVD) and online piracy, this book tackles issues of policy, international politics, globalization, and technology. It offers in-depth analyses of the unique market structures and copyright governance regimes in the three territories—China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan—and features a wealth of original research, new data on piracy and distribution, and interviews with global film distributors, key government officials, and film pirates. With changes and reforms afoot in China upon its entering the World Trade Organization, this timely book shows that such transformations have far-reaching implications for policy, theory, and practice.
Shujen Wang is associate professor of visual and media arts at Emerson College and a research associate in the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.
Part 1 List of FiguresPart 2 List of PhotographsPart 3 List of TablesPart 4 AcknowledgmentsPart 5 IntroductionPart 6 I: ContextsChapter 7 1. Global Film Distribution Revisited: Network, Technology, and SpaceChapter 8 2. Re-Contextualizing Copyright: Technology, Transnational Trade Regimes, and the StateChapter 9 3. WTO and the Greater China Economic Circle: Local, Regional, and Global DynamicsChapter 10 4. VCD Killed the VHS StarPart 11 II: Case StudiesChapter 12 5. Film Distribution in Mainland ChinaChapter 13 6. Film Piracy in Mainland ChinaChapter 14 7. Film Distribution in TaiwanChapter 15 8. Profile: Wolf ChenChapter 16 9. A Culture of Illegality? Piracy in TaiwanChapter 17 10. The Hong Kong Connection: Distribution, Piracy, and Parallel ImportChapter 18 11. Framing PiracyPart 19 Appendix APart 20 Appendix BPart 21 Appendix CPart 22 BibliographyPart 23 IndexPart 24 About the Author
A deliciously concrete yet profoundly general account of how the media in Greater China sort out their paradoxes—as well as how they negotiate a globalizing and technological order that they had never known before.
