Shanzhai Market
The Shanzhai market ( Shan Zhai ; Chinese: 山寨; Pinyin : shānzhài) is the gray market of unlicensed product manufacturers who manufacture and sell counterfeit or counterfeit products.
Concept history
The word Shanzhai also has a linguistic reference to the Chinese word mountain village (山寨, shānzhài), which means uncontrollable production sites in the hinterland.
The term shānzhài first appeared in the traditional Chinese language during the Song dynasty and could refer to a "haunted village" or a "besieged mountain fortress" in the sense of the mountain village . Brave heroes originally fought against unsolicited, corrupt government officials. The term later acquired a derogatory connotation ; heroes became robbers. With the opening of China to international markets, the term mutated into the epitome of counterfeit goods and theft of intellectual property in the course of establishing product piracy .
forecast
According to experts, the Shanzhai market for mobile phones is expected to grow by 8% annually until 2013.
literature
- Byung-Chul Han: Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese. Merve-Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-883962948
Web links
- Shanzhai - the art of copy ( ZDF )
- On the hunt for forgers in China ( Memento from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) ( Financial Times Deutschland )
- Paul Ertel: Shanzai. Copy culture in China
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Rommel (Ed.), Plagiarism - Danger for Science ?: An international inventory , p. 211
- ↑ Wolfgang Hascher: Where have 200 million mobile phone chips gone? (No longer available online.) Elektronik.net, September 3, 2009, archived from the original on February 21, 2012 ; Retrieved May 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
