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British Journal of Criminology Advance Access published online on November 11, 2009
British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azp069
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The British Journal of Criminology 0:azp069 (2009)
© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (ISTD). All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

‘THE DRAGON BREATHES SMOKE’

Cigarette Counterfeiting in the People's Republic of China

Anqi Shen, Georgios A. Antonopoulos* and Klaus Von Lampe

* School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA, UK; g.antonopoulos{at}tees.ac.uk


  Abstract

This article aims at providing an account of the social organization of the cigarette counterfeiting business in the People's Republic of China—a business that has been feeding the cigarette black markets around the globe. Specifically, we aim to exhibit the scale and nature of cigarette counterfeiting in mainland China, describe the practices and actors in the different phases of the trade, and examine the role of corruption and violence in the particular business. We argue that cigarette counterfeiting is one of the side effects of China's reform and ‘opening up’ policy, and a feature of the country's economic development process.

Key Words: counterfeiting • cigarettes • China • illegal market


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