Explaining China's Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights Policy Nrom since the Country's WTO Entry: the Case of Copyright.

The empirical puzzle that drives my paper is: why intellectual Property Rights(IPR) infringement remain so rampant despite China's consistent legislative and enforments efforts before and after the country's WTO entry? Contrary to the existing argument that focuses on the deficiency of Chinese IPR bueaucracy, I explore the societal factors that hinder IPR policy implementation in China. Specifically, taking the case of Chinese copyright industry, I argue that the uneasy relationship between the norm of copyright, the traditional Chinese notion of cultural products as property and the mainstream Chinese ideology governing intellectual and cultural affairs constitutes the major obstacle for the norm of copyright to gain legitimacy in Chinese society. The empirical evidence cited in this study is gathered from 17 months of field work in 6 provinces, municipalities, and special administrative region (SAR), namely, Anhui, Beijing, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Jiangsu, and Shanghai. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]