SEMINAR: Asian Studies Seminar Series

A wide perception about China is that the Chinese only imitate foreign creativity. The notion of creativity is not heavily studied by sinologists and deserves a better discussion from an inter-disciplinary view. This presentation will examine how renowned individuals in Chinese history viewed creativity and how creativity was understood in a broader social and cultural context of the cumulativeness of knowledge and the dissemination of information. This perspective is not only constructive to sinology but also to topical global agendas, in particular the global governance of knowledge and intellectual property law