Imitation, Counterfeiting and the Quality of Goods in Modern Asian History

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Furuta, Kazuko (Editor), Grove, Linda (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Small business.; Economic history.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Economics.; Economic History.; Small Business.; Asian Economics.

This book focuses on the production of low-quality goods, the rise of markets for imitations and shoddy goods, and dishonest trading practices which developed along with the expansion of global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in East Asia. Fake, imitation, counterfeit, and adulterate...