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cjal-3129	Alford, William P.	Don’t Stop Thinking about Yesterday – Why There Was No Indigenous Counterpart to Intellectual Property Law in Imperial China	1993	32	.pdf	application/pdf	14789	628	53	Although the characterization of imperial Chinese law as wholly penal obscures the degree to which such law addressed civil matters, it 56. The purpose of this essay, in delving into China's imperial legal history regarding such matters, is not to suggest that China ought necessarily to have followed the path of the United States or other nations in developing intellectual property law.'	cache/cjal-3129.pdf	txt/cjal-3129.txt