[ARSCLIST] Chinese copies- slang

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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Chinese copies- slang
From: Steven Smolian <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:59:09 -0400
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In a letter from Eldridge R. Johnson to a Gramophone Co. executive , Nov. 18, 1901, he says, "The Graphophone competition does not amount to anything so far but.....They are making Chinese copies of everything that we sell and are following us as closely as they possibly can."

This being 1901 rather than 2006, does anyone know the slang meining of Chinese copies as of then?  It could be

They are recording their own versions

They are making there own versions which imitate ours

They are making copies directly from ours

They are electrotyping our copies and issuing them as their own

or......

Anyone have a slang or business dictionary from that period?

Steve Smolian

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