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I Wrote a Book on Chinese History. It Was Stolen By Pirates on Alibaba
Your sellers are stealing my words! the author told Alibaba. Copyright theft remains a part of China’s larger culture of impunity to regulation.
Not with my book you don’t!
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I’m a victim of Chinese pirates.
Not the seafaring cutthroats with parrots on their shoulders. The treasure these pirates steal is intellectual. A friend in Beijing discovered fake copies of my latest book Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World selling over the Chinese Internet. At about $40, they were more expensive than the real thing. But you got an e-version for a piddly $1.50