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  • The Explosion Chronicles

    A Novel

    by Yan Lianke ...
    Translated by Carlos Rojas ...
    "A rip-roaring Swiftian satire from a contemporary Chinese master" follows a rural community's transformation from small village to megalopolis ( The Economist ).With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees fleeing a seismic volcanic eruption. But in the post-Mao era the name takes on a new ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Protocol

    Development and Displacement in Global China

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Ralph A. Litzinger ...
    Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance. China's development does not result from historical imperatives or deliberate economic strategies, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Years, Months, Days

    Two Novellas

    Translated by Carlos Rojas ...
    by Yan Lianke ...
    Over the last decade, Yan Lianke has been continually heralded as one of the “best contemporary Chinese writers” (The Independent) and “one of the country’s fiercest satirists” (The Guardian). Among many awards and honors, he has been twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize and he was awarded the prestigious Franz Kafka Prize for his impressive body of work. Now, for the first time ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Lu Xun and World Literature

    Edited by Xiaolu Ma, Carlos Rojas ...
    In Lu Xun and World Literature, Xiaolu Ma, Carlos Rojas, and other contributors examine various aspects of Lu Xun, who is known as the father of modern Chinese literature. Essays in this book focus on Lu Xun’s works in relation to the notions of world literature and processes of literary worlding. The contributors offer detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre and of foreign works that ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Paradigm of Forests and the Survival of the Fittest

    Edited by Sergio A. Molina-Murillo, Carlos Rojas Alvarado ...
    This book demonstrates the social, historical, and environmental framework within which humans have developed a relationship with the forest and its resources. Starting from the biological basis that permits the existence of forests to the use of forest resources in a modern human context, this book summarizes the interaction between humans and forest ecosystems. Designed for readers from a broad ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Myxomycetes

    Biology, Systematics, Biogeography and Ecology

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Steven L. Stephenson ...
    Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography and Ecology, Second Edition provides a complete collection of general and technical information on myxomycetes microorganisms. Its broad scope takes an integrated approach, considering a number of important aspects surrounding their genetics and molecular phylogeny. The book treats myxomycetes as a distinct group from fungi and includes molecular ... Read more

    $132.79 CAD

  • Communicology of the South

    Critical Perspectives from Latin America

    Edited by Carlos F. Del Valle Rojas, Francisco Sierra Caballero ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book addresses new conceptual bases for thinking critically about communication as a necessary way in which to confront power, property and the market as part of the daily resistance of Latin American subaltern cultures. The chapters research an urgent field of situated knowledge and spark a much-needed dialogue. The editors view emancipatory communication experiences as disruptive acts of ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The Paradigm of Forests and the Survival of the Fittest

    Edited by Sergio A. Molina-Murillo, Carlos Rojas Alvarado ...
    This book demonstrates the social, historical, and environmental framework within which humans have developed a relationship with the forest and its resources. Starting from the biological basis that permits the existence of forests to the use of forest resources in a modern human context, this book summarizes the interaction between humans and forest ecosystems. Designed for readers from a broad ... Read more

    $253.99 CAD

  • Reading China Against the Grain

    Imagining Communities

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Mei-hwa Sung ...
    Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in which China and Chineseness are understood and imagined.Using the central theme of the way in which literature has the potential to both reinforce and to undermine a national imaginary, the volume contains chapters offering new perspectives on well ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • New World Orderings

    China and the Global South

    Edited by Lisa Rofel, Carlos Rojas ...
    Series series Sinotheory
    The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation’s position in the world and the centrality ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Myxomycetes

    Biology, Systematics, Biogeography and Ecology

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Steven L. Stephenson ...
    Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology is a comprehensive overview of the body of accumulated knowledge that now exists on myxomycetes. Its broad scope takes an integrated approach to the knowledge of this organismal group, considering a number of important aspects of their genetics and molecular phylogeny. It also treats myxomycetes as a distinct group from fungi, and ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

    Cannibalizations of the Canon

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Eileen Chow ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another.An ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD