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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Homesickness

    Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China

    by Carlos Rojas ...
    The collapse of China’s Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these parallel developments generated a set of paradigm shifts in the understanding of society, the individual, as well as the cultural matrix that mediates between them. In Homesickness, Carlos Rojas examines an array of Chinese literary and cinematic tropes of ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Homesickness

    Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China

    by Carlos Rojas ...
    The collapse of China’s Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these parallel developments generated a set of paradigm shifts in the understanding of society, the individual, as well as the cultural matrix that mediates between them. In Homesickness, Carlos Rojas examines an array of Chinese literary and cinematic tropes of ... Read more

    $63.19 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

  • Building Native Web Components

    Front-End Development with Polymer and Vue.js

    by Carlos Rojas ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Start developing single-page applications (SPAs) with modern architecture. This book shows you how to create, design, and publish native web components, ultimately allowing you to piece together those elements in a modern JavaScript framework.Building Native Web Components dives right in and gets you started building your first web component. You’ll be introduced to native web component design ... Read more

    $63.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Great Wall

    A Cultural History

    by Carlos Rojas ...
    Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world’s most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure’s conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the tenuous and ephemeral stories we tell about it. These stories give life to the Wall and help secure its ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD