Carlos Rojas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos Rojas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos |
| FAMILY NAME | Rojas |
| SIGNATURE | ROJAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6187-5797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 76 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 37 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exploring Costa Rica's fungal trends: Insights from digitized specimens
Societal Impact Statement Fungi are essential to tropical ecosystems but remain largely absent from conservation agendas. By analyzing over 78,000 fungal records from Costa Rica—a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot—this study reveals key patterns in fungal diversity, distribution, and seasonality. These insights support more inclusive conservation strategies, ecological monitoring, and biodiversity policy. The study also reinforces the vita…
Embodied awareness during preparation of an exam repertoire in advanced flute students
Introduction This study explored the subjective constructions of embodied learning in advanced flute students ( N = 5; aged 21–26 years) from a Music Performance program at a university in the Valparaíso Region, Chile over six weeks, as they prepared a specific repertoire for an exam. Methods Data included weekly student logbooks detailing their learning process, alongside repeated self-report ratings of anxiety and self-confidence on a 1–10 scal…
Psychometric Validation of a Spanish–Chilean Instrument for Assessing Public Attitudes Toward Childhood Stuttering: Construct Validity and Internal Consistency
Background/Objectives: Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disorder of speech fluency. It emerges most commonly between 2 and 5 years old, often causing social exclusion and stigma. In Latin America, cultural misconceptions regarding its causes exacerbate these psychosocial challenges. This study validated a culturally adapted instrument for Chile to measure public attitudes toward stuttering. The instrument provides a psychometrically sound metho…
Lu Xun and World Literature
This volume examines the work of Lu Xun, known as the father of modern Chinese literature and regarded as one of twentieth century China’s most influential literary figures. Our focus in on Lu Xun’s works in relation to notions of world literature and literary worlding, and our volume offers detailed analyses of Lu Xun’s own literary oeuvre as well as of foreign works that engage with his writings. We also give detailed attention to different asp…
Lu Xun and World Literature
Designing a Virtual Reality Platform for University Students: An Immersive Approach to Developing Oral Presentation Skills
The increasing use of Virtual Reality in education has demonstrated its potential to enhance student engagement and skill development. This study investigates the design and implementation of a VR platform aimed at helping university students improve their oral presentation skills, while also evaluating user satisfaction through structured surveys. A total of 40 university students from the Speech and Language Therapy program participated in this…
Influence of Marital and Parental Status on Public Reactions to Stuttering in Chile: A Socio-Demographic Study
Stuttering is a communication disorder that significantly impacts individuals' quality of life. This study examines public reactions towards stuttering within the Latin American context, specifically in Chile, using the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering. Data were collected from 400 adults, revealing that married individuals and parents exhibit heightened sensitivity and concern towards stuttering, especially regarding close fa…
Zhansui Yu. Questioning the Chinese Model: Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First-Century China
Governance dynamics and local autonomy in large-scale governmental funding: The case of Sweden’s campaign to improve equity
This article analyses the Swedish case of the government’s funding for equity, which annually provides over 600 million euros to improve equity. Being one of the largest funding schemes ever for work towards educational equity it also provides full autonomy for local education authorities (LEAs) to use the money at their discretion. By studying local decisions through interviews and analysing applications and plans in nine cases, we deepen our un…
Heart and body: Queer crossings in Go Princess Go
Based on an internet novel first released in 2008, the Chinese web series Go Princess Go 太子妃升職記 (2015–2016) takes a time-travel ‘crossover’ premise and uses it to explore a set of queer scenarios involving ‘crossovers’ of both gender and sexual orientation. This article examines how the series approaches issues of identity formation in relation to a plotline that has both homoerotic and transgender implications. The article then considers the ser…
Word Retrieval After the 80s: Evidence From Specific and Multiple Words Naming Tasks
Older adults show a progressive cognitive decline, and although language processing appears to resist advancing age, studies in word retrieval report that elders show important difficulties. Previous research reports that such failures increase from age 70 years, which suggests that during the fourth age word retrieval would exhibit even stronger constraints. At the same time, extant evidence suggests that only retrieval of a specific word might …
Habilidades lingüísticas en un cerebro envejecido: Revisión de estudios empíricos en adultos de tercera y cuarta edad cognitivamente sanos
Un cerebro envejecido exhibe importantes cambios a nivel lingstico, con buen rendimiento en determinados aspectos y dficits en otros. No obstante, los mltiples niveles involucrados y la heterogeneidad cognitiva y etaria durante el envejecimiento hacen que los lmites de estos dficits sean difusos. Un mejor conocimiento ayudara a dimensionar la real magnitud de estos cambios y distinguir aquellas variaciones normales de las que no. Este artculo tie…
New World Orderings: China and the Global South
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 of trade, labor, religion, migration, gender, race…
Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking
Smoking cessation knowledge and perceptions of cancer care providers at six Latin American cancer institutions
Objective. To assess the characteristics, self-reported tobacco use, knowledge, and perceptions about smoking cessation among cancer care providers (CCPs), as well as perceived barriers to inform interventions that can potentially improve quitting rates and the prognosis of cancer patients in Latin America. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 996 CCPs in six cancer institutions located in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and …
At Home in the World: Wandering Earth, Environmentalism, and Reimagined Homelands
Based on a 2000 novella by Cixin Liu with the same title, Frant Gwo’s 2019 film Wandering Earth has been celebrated as China’s first big-budget science fiction film. As a Chinese film with a global theme that simultaneously targets both a domestic and an international audience, accordingly, the work invites a reflection on the relationship between the local and the global—on how we understand the concept of home, and what it might mean to be home…
A Surplus of Fish: Language, Literature, and Cultural Ecologies in Ng Kim Chew’s Fiction
This essay uses an examination of intertwined thematics of fish and text in the fiction of the ethnically Malaysian Chinese author Ng Kim Chew in order to reflect on a broader set of ecological concerns, including issues relating to the natural ecology of the Southeast Asian regions depicted in Ng’s works, together with the overlapping literary ecosystems within which his works are embedded. In particular, the essay is concerned with the ways in …
Strategic Spatial Anchoring as Cognitive Compensation During Word Categorization in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence from Eye Movements
Method as Method
In 1960 Japanese scholar of Chinese literature Takeuchi Yoshimi gave a pair of lectures titled “Asia as Method,” in which he considered how one might engage with Western theory from an East Asian perspective. In this intervention Takeuchi was particularly interested in Western universal values of freedom and equality, noting the manifest tension between these ideals themselves and the imperial legacies with which they are linked. Takeuchi suggest…
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
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 over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgängers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a …
Three Ironic Moments in My Mother Ru Zhijuan’s Literary Career
Beyond Satire
Zhang Guangyu’s illustrated tale Journey to the West in Cartoons (1945) has been described as a colorful, whimsical, but also trenchant lampoon of bankrupt politics and society under Nationalist rule at the close of the War of Resistance against Japan. Journey is indeed a masterful example of satire, but it is also a remarkable work of manhua , a genre of verbal-visual art often referred to as “cartoon” that flourished in China’s treaty ports in …
Travels in Modern China
Travels in modern China are not only about displacement and exile, but are in many ways informed by a complicated sense of inadequacy and betrayal, as the desire to stay close (or return) to the fatherland is constantly frustrated and negated. This chapter argues that modern Chinese intellectuals and writers—belated but nevertheless ubiquitous and mobile travelers—are often shaped by a profound sense of psychosocial deprivation, reluctance, and l…
Early Modern Comparative Approaches to Literary Early Modernity
Modern Chinese literature is often understood as marking a self-consciously cosmopolitan departure from a long and largely autochthonous literary tradition. The binary between “modern” and “traditional” implicit in this view forecloses the possibility of reading individual works and broader literary developments in the late Ming and early Qing alongside European counterparts as part of a shared early modernity. After reviewing the emergence of an…
On Time
Through a close reading of several works by contemporary Hong Kong author Dung Kai-Cheung, and particularly his recent novel Works and Creations , this chapter examines how Dung deploys a dialectics of anticipatory loss and belated recognition to comment not only on the status of contemporary Hong Kong but also on the process of fiction-writing itself. The analysis draws on the precisely inverse Freudian concepts of the fetish and of deferred act…
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Las llaves del infierno
La ternura del hombre invisible
De Cela a Castillo-Navarro: Veinte anos de prosa espanola contemporanea
La Espana moderna (vista y sentida por los espanoles)
Por qué perdimos la guerra
Aquellarre
El ingenioso hidalgo y poeta Federico Garcia Lorca asciende a los infiernos
Proceso a Godoy
Evaluación de resultados en la Escuela Nueva de Colombia ¿es el multigrado la respuesta
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Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries
Cannibalism and the Chinese Body Politic: Hermeneutics and Violence in Cross-Cultural Perception
Postmodern Culture - Volume 12, Number 3, May 2002
Flies' Eyes, Mural Remnants, and Jia Pingwa's Perverse Nostalgia
Research Article| August 01 2006 Flies' Eyes, Mural Remnants, and Jia Pingwa's Perverse Nostalgia Carlos Rojas Carlos Rojas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (2006) 14 (3): 749–773. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2006-020 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Carlos Rojas; Flies' Eyes, Mural Remnants, and Jia Pingwa's Perverse Nostalgia. positions 1 A…
Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History
Preface / David Der-wei Wang vii Introduction / Carlos Rojas 1 Part One: The Limits of Taiwan Literature 1. Representing Taiwan: Shifting Geopolitical Frameworks / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 17 2. Postmodern or Postcolonial? An Inquiry into Postwar Taiwanese Literary History / Fangming Chen 26 3. the Concept of Taiwan Literature / Xiaobing Tang 51 Part Two: Cultural Politics 4. The Importance of Being Perverse: China and Taiwan, 1931-1937 / Joyce C.…
Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture . Sheldon H. Lu
The Great Wall: A Cultural History
In this book, Carlos Rojas challenges two of the dominant contemporary visions of the Great Wall of China. In one view the Wall is popularly imagined as a two thousand year old national icon. However another recent theory posits that the Wall was not built until around the seventeenth century, and that the current fascination with the Wall is of even more recent provenance. Rojas rejects both of these theories as inaccurate. Instead, he argues th…
Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
Along the Riverrun
Tsai Ming-liang’s 1997 film The River features one of the most challenging scenes in contemporary Chinese cinema: a graphically sexual encounter in a dark bathhouse between two men who belatedly recognize each other as father and son. This chapter uses an analysis of the dialectics of desire and alienation that drives this scene to reexamine some of the implications of cinematic suture—both as it is deployed in this particular film, and also more…
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas
HISTORY 1) Jianhua Chen, D. W. Griffith and the Rise of in Early 1920s Shanghai 2) Kristine Harris, Ombres Chinoises: Split-Screens and Parallel Lives in Love and Duty 3) David Der-wei Wang, Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Polemics of Screening China 4) Jie Li, National for a Puppet State: Manchurian Motion Picture Association 5) Yomi Braester Genealogy of Cinephilia in the Maoist Period 6) Poshek Fu Cold War Hong Kong and Mid-twentieth Century Mand…
Taiwan New Cinema
How does one measure the significance of a nation’s cinema? This chapter presents a case for Taiwan cinema as a product of a small nation with enormous soft power. Tracing major awards won by Taiwan films and directors at international film festivals, it will show that a dismal domestic production level is no hindrance to a small cinema’s global critical acclaim and examine the paradoxical dynamic between a perceived failure in the state of domes…
Jing TSU. Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
At two or three points in Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, Jing Tsu's excellent study on the Chinese language and the limits of national identity, one finds a line of text that ends with an incorrect hyphenation of a Chinese word. For instance, liegenxing is rendered not as “lie-genxing” but rather as “lieg-enxing” (p. 88), and wenyan becomes not “wen-yan” but rather “we-nyan” (p. 176). While these infelicities are admittedly the result of a…
Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness, written by Song Hwee Lim
Prevalence, risk behaviours, and HIV knowledge in an Indigenous community in Colombia
There are 87 Indigenous ethnic groups in Colombia, representing 3.4% of the country’s population. Poverty, forced displacement, and social and health inequities place Indigenous communities at increased risk of HIV/AIDS. However, little is known about the prevalence of HIV in this population. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in an Indigenous community in Colombia, and to…
Beyond Satire
Zhang Guangyu’s illustrated tale Journey to the West in Cartoons (1945) has been described as a colorful, whimsical, but also trenchant lampoon of bankrupt politics and society under Nationalist rule at the close of the War of Resistance against Japan. Journey is indeed a masterful example of satire, but it is also a remarkable work of manhua , a genre of verbal-visual art often referred to as “cartoon” that flourished in China’s treaty ports in …
Travels in Modern China
Travels in modern China are not only about displacement and exile, but are in many ways informed by a complicated sense of inadequacy and betrayal, as the desire to stay close (or return) to the fatherland is constantly frustrated and negated. This chapter argues that modern Chinese intellectuals and writers—belated but nevertheless ubiquitous and mobile travelers—are often shaped by a profound sense of psychosocial deprivation, reluctance, and l…
Early Modern Comparative Approaches to Literary Early Modernity
Modern Chinese literature is often understood as marking a self-consciously cosmopolitan departure from a long and largely autochthonous literary tradition. The binary between “modern” and “traditional” implicit in this view forecloses the possibility of reading individual works and broader literary developments in the late Ming and early Qing alongside European counterparts as part of a shared early modernity. After reviewing the emergence of an…
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