Publications [#383034] of Carlos Rojas

Papers Published

1. Rojas, C, WRITING THE GOOD STORY, READING THE NATION, in Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation (January, 2025), pp. 404-413 [doi] .
   (last updated on 2026/01/14)

   Abstract:
   Taking as its starting point Chinese author Yan Lianke’s 2021 novel The China Story, which Yan wrote in the first months of 2020 at the beginning of the COVID outbreak, this essay reflects more broadly on President Xi Jinping’s political slogan “Telling the good China story of fighting the epidemic,” which he coined in February of 2020, together with its implications for our understanding of the role of narrative in buttressing and potentially challenging prevailing views of the nation. In this way, the essay uses literary analysis to reflect on political discourse, and vice versa.