When they make change, owners of stores and restaurants often try to foist this scrip, which can be easily counterfeited, on unsuspecting tourists.
This may be an aesthetic strategy on Mr. Gitai's part -- a principled refusal to counterfeit on film an emotional clarity and orderliness that doesn't exist in reality -- but it is ultimately a self-defeating one.
Chinese online shopping company Alibaba has been lobbying to stay off a US blacklist for fakes after coming under renewed pressure this year over suspected counterfeits on its shopping platforms.
As one detective would later recall, "It was a popular remark among men of business at that time, that they preferred a good counterfeit on a solid bank to any genuine bill upon the 'shyster' institutions".
Last month, China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce issued a white paper accusing Alibaba of not doing enough to stem the sale of counterfeits on its platforms.
Only four studies 28 29 36 39 reported conducting some form of authentication investigation, which is important to confirm if a medicine is counterfeit, particularly since samples that have passed laboratory tests were still found to be counterfeit on investigation.
Authentic Louis Vuitton bags will generally have a higher SPI count than many of the counterfeits on the market.
But as Mr. Ma's profile has risen, Alibaba has grappled with challenges, including allegations from the owners of famous brands that it takes a lax stance on counterfeit goods on its sales platforms — a charge it denies.
