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The Global Faces of China's Incomplete Reforms: A Perspective from China's New Intellectual Property Regime

Chen, Ge; Zenglein, Max

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Max Zenglein



Abstract

The paper probes into an antithetical aspect of China’s economic reforms in the global context by focusing on the recent developments of China’s intellectual property regime. By analyzing this cutting-edge legal system, it highlights China’s political divergence against its economic convergence in its decade-long reforms, in particular, its state-oriented innovation system as against the world’s neo-liberal economic order. The last decade witnessed China’s preeminent transformation from a passive follower to a proactive advocator of IP standards. However, certain entrenched limits characterizing China’s state-oriented economy and cultural systems such as information blockade and coercive technology transfer serve as catalysts that are apt to provoke acrimonious confrontation between China and major economies. In this sense, China’s incomplete reforms have taken on a new form: as China’s influence on the global economy grows, conflicts of diverse national priorities become more palpable than simple-minded economic cooperation.

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Chen, G., & Zenglein, M. (2019). The Global Faces of China's Incomplete Reforms: A Perspective from China's New Intellectual Property Regime. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 17(4), 425-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2020.1712886

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 4, 2020
Online Publication Date Jan 13, 2020
Publication Date 2019
Deposit Date Oct 17, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
Print ISSN 1476-5284
Electronic ISSN 1476-5292
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 17
Issue 4
Pages 425-443
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2020.1712886

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