Carlos A Rojas

Cuernos Para El Dialogo

Derecho Comercial a Su Alcance

Salvador Dali, or the Art of Spitting on Your Mother's Portrait

National Assessments: Testing the System

Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History

The Garden of Janus

The Garden of the Hesperides

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programming by Example

Carlos Rojas

Carlos Rodolfo Rojas Rojas (born 2 October 1928) is a Chilean football midfielder who played for Chile in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Unin...

ESTÉTICAS CANÍBALES. VOLUMEN 1. DEL CANON POSMODERNO A LAS ESTÉTICAS CANÍBALES (Spanish Edition)

Estudio sobre la estética actual, la conformación de un canon posmoderno, el rebasamiento de este a través de las estéticas caníbales. Esta nueva estética consiste en devorar a Occidente a tal extremo de convertirle en otro, que se apropiable desde fuera de este espacio. El análisis incluye la propu...

Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times (Great Barrington Books)

Uncertain Worlds is the definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. Few theorists have offered a more systematic theory of what has become known as 'globalisation' than Wallerstein. The book includes a one-of-kind in...

Slow Boat to China and Other Stories (Modern Chinese Literature From Taiwan)

"Dream and Swine and Aurora," "Deep in the Rubber Forest," "Fish Bones," "Allah's Will," "Monkey Butts, Fire, and Dangerous Things"―Ng Kim Chew's stories are raw, rural, and rich with the traditions of his native Malaysia. They are also full of humor and spirit, demonstrating a deep appreciation for...

Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China

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. ...

Marrow (Penguin Specials)

Palou Tiange slowly unfolds as a story of grotesque cannibalism in a small village in the Palou Mountains, Henan province. In the story, a mother takes extreme measures to try to cure her children from a psychiatric illness. First, she feeds them a medicinal soup made from the bones of her dead husb...

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures (Oxford Handbooks)

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 sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology-...

The Explosion Chronicles: A Novel

Man Booker International finalist Yan Lianke has been lauded for his imaginative satire and insightful cultural critique as "one of China’s greatest living authors" (Guardian). His internationally bestselling new novel, The Explosion Chronicles, follows the excessive expansion of a rural community f...

The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel’s Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed ov...