[From Beijing to Berne] to Beijing

  Starting relatively late, China is quickly catching up with othercountries in copyright protection.
  
  Since drafting its first domesticcopyright law, it has taken Chinaonly a little over a decade to jointhe major international copyrightconventions. This Path is remark-ably short for adopting copyright conven-tions―it took nearly a century to developthem in Western countries.