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Carlos Rojas

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Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
c.rojas@duke.edu
Box 90414, 2204 Erwin Rd., Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road Room 208, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
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Scholarly Works - Books

The naked gaze: Reflections on Chinese modernity

Book · March 17, 2020 In a photograph taken late in her life, Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) stands in front of her imperial throne, holding a small mirror in one hand and inserting a long-stemmed flower into her hair with the other (see Fig. 1). Positioned above the throne i ... Cite

Preface: Imagining China

Book · January 1, 2020 Cite

Introduction: My Language is not my own: Translation, displacement, and contemporary Chinese literature

Book · January 1, 2020 Using Derrida’s statement “I have only one language, but it is not mine, " from Monolingualism of the Other, as its entry point, this chapter examines the different conjunctions of language, nationality, culture, and ethnicity in works by five contemporary ... Full text Cite

Reading China against the grain: Imagining communities

Book · January 1, 2020 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 literatu ... Full text Cite

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

Book · August 2016 With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sec ... Cite

Slow Boat to China and Other Stories

Book · March 8, 2016 In prose that is intimate and atmospheric, these stories, selected from several Ng Kim Chew collections, depict the struggles of individuals torn between their ancestral and adoptive homes, communities pressured by violence, and minority ... ... Cite

Luoguan: Zhongguo xiandaixing de fansi 裸觀： 中國現代性的反思

Book · 2015 Chinese translation of The Naked Gaze ... Cite

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Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon

Book · December 8, 2008 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 ... Full text Cite