Carlos Rojas

Carlos Rojas is Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University. He has authored, edited, and translated numerous works, including literary fiction by Yan Lianke, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, and Ng Kim Chew.

All essays by Carlos Rojas

Review: Carlos Rojason Yan Lianke
  • The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke
  • The Day the Sun Died by Yan Lianke Text Classics
    352pp
    $32.99 AU
    Published August, 2018
    ISBN 9781925603859

Waking Up: Yan Lianke’s The Day The Sun Died

‘Although the year in which the novel is set is not specified, it is tempting to view the work’s thematization of dreams in the context of the popular political slogan, the Chinese Dream.’
Sep. 2018 • •
Review: Carlos Rojason Yan Lianke
  • Cover of The Years, Months, Days by Yan Lianke
  • The Years, Months, Days by Yan Lianke Text Publishing
    112pp
    19.99 AU
    ISBN 9781925603125

Talking to the Dog: The Years, Months, Days by Yan Lianke

We may approach Yan Lianke’s 1997 novella The Years, Months, Days through another, perhaps rather unexpected, work — Richard Matheson’s iconic 1954 novel, I Am Legend. The protagonist of the latter work, Robert Neville, finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity has been ravaged by a virulent bacillus. Lianke’s novella is set against a similarly apocalyptic landscape. Following a devastating drought, the entire population of a remote Henan village flees, leaving behind only an old man and a stray dog.’
Nov. 2017 • •