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Edited Book or Journal Volume

Klein, Jakob A. and Watson, James L., eds. (2016) The Handbook of Food and Anthropology. London: Bloomsbury.

Staples, James and Klein, Jakob A., eds. (2016) Ethnos – Volume 82, Issue 2 (2017): Includes the Theme Issue: Consumer and Consumed: Humans and Animals in Globalising Food Systems. London: Taylor and Francis.

Jung, Yuson, Klein, Jakob A. and Caldwell, Melissa L., eds. (2014) Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Klein, Jakob A. and Murcott, Anne, eds. (2014) Food Consumption in Global Perspective: Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Latham, Kevin, Thompson, Stuart and Klein, Jakob A., eds. (2006) Consuming China: approaches to cultural change in contemporary China. London; New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Klein, Jakob A., Berlin, S., Wang, C.Y. and Thomason, E. (2022) 'Food Cultures.' In: Kehoe, S. and Wielander, G., (eds.), Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review. London: University of Westminster Press, pp. 41-55.

Klein, Jakob A. (2020) 'Transformations of Chinese Cuisines.' In: Latham, Kevin, (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Culture and Society. London: Routledge, pp. 376-394.

Watson, James L. and Klein, Jakob A. (2016) 'Introduction: Anthropology, Food and Modern Life.' In: Klein, Jakob A. and Watson, James L., (eds.), The Handbook of Food and Anthropology. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 1-27.

Hull, Elizabeth (2016) 'Supermarket Expansion, Informal Retail and Food Acquisition Strategies:An Example from Rural South Africa.' In: Klein, Jakob A. and Watson, James L., (eds.), The Handbook of Food and Anthropology. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 370-386.

Klein, Jakob A. (2015) 'Eating Green: Ecological Food Consumption in Urban China.' In: Kim, Kwang Ok, (ed.), Re-Orienting Cuisine: East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 238-262. (Food, Nutrition, and Culture: Volume 3)

Klein, Jakob A. (2014) 'Connecting with the Countryside? "Alternative" Food Movements with Chinese Characteristics.' In: Jung, Yuson, Klein, Jakob A. and Caldwell, Melissa L., (eds.), Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 116-143.

West, Harry G. (2014) 'Ethical Food Systems, Between Suspicion and Hope.' In: Jung, Yuson, Klein, Jakob A. and Caldwell, Melissa L., (eds.), Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 298-304.

Klein, Jakob A. (2014) 'Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food.' In: Klein, Jakob A. and Murcott, Anne, (eds.), Food Consumption in Global Perspective: Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Klein, Jakob A., Jung, Yuson and Caldwell, Melissa L. (2014) 'Introduction: Ethical Eating and (Post)socialist Alternatives.' In: Jung, Yuson, Klein, Jakob A. and Caldwell, Melissa L., (eds.), Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-24.

Klein, Jakob A., Pottier, Johan and West, Harry G. (2012) 'New Directions in the Anthropology of Food.' In: Fardon, Richard, Harris, Olivia, Marchand, Trevor H.J., Nuttall, Mark, Shore, Cris, Strang, Veronica and Wilson, Richard A., (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 293-302.

Klein, Jakob A. (2009) 'Chinese meals: diversity and change.' In: Meiselman, Herbert L., (ed.), Meals in science and practice: interdisciplinary research and business applications. Cambridge: Woodhead, pp. 452-482.

Klein, Jakob A. (2008) '"For eating, it’s Guangzhou": regional culinary traditions and Chinese socialism.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. Oxford; New York: Berghahn.

Klein, Jakob A. (2006) 'Changing Tastes in Guangzhou: Restaurant Writings in the Late 1990s.' In: Latham, Kevin, Thompson, Stuart and Klein, Jakob A., (eds.), Consuming China. Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 104-120.

Palmer, Michael (2006) 'The Emergence of Consumer Rights: Consumer Protection Law in the People’ Republic of China.' In: Thompson, N.S., Latham, Kevin and Klein, Jakob A., (eds.), Consuming China: approaches to cultural change in contemporary China. London: Routledge, pp. 56-81.

Latham, Kevin (2006) 'Powers of Imagination: The Role of the Consumer in China's Silent Media Revolution.' In: Latham, Kevin, Thompson, Stuart and Klein, Jakob A., (eds.), Consuming China. Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China. London: Routledge, pp. 82-103.

Journal Article

Klein, Jakob A. (2020) 'Ambivalent Regionalism and the Promotion of a New National Staple Food: Reinventing Potatoes in Inner Mongolia and Yunnan.' Global Food History, 6 (2). pp. 143-163.

Klein, Jakob A. (2019) 'Eating potatoes is patriotic: state, market and the common good in contemporary China.' Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 48 (3). pp. 340-359.

Klein, Jakob A. (2018) 'Heritagizing Local Cheese in China: Opportunities, Challenges, and Inequalities.' Food and Foodways, 26 (1). pp. 63-83.

Staples, James and Klein, Jakob A. (2016) 'Consumer and Consumed.' Ethnos, 82 (2). pp. 193-212.

Klein, Jakob A. (2016) 'Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurants and the Changing Meanings of Meat in Urban China.' Ethnos, 82 (2). pp. 252-276.

Klein, Jakob A. (2013) 'Everyday approaches to food safety in Kunming.' The China Quarterly, 214. pp. 376-393.

Klein, Jakob A. (2013) '"There is no such thing as Dian cuisine!" Food and local identity in urban Southwest China.' Food and History, 11 (1). pp. 203-225.

Klein, Jakob A. (2009) 'Creating ethical food consumers? Promoting organic foods in urban Southwest China.' Social Anthropology, 17 (1). pp. 74-89.

Klein, Jakob A. (2008) 'Afterword: Comparing Vegetarianisms.' South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies, 31 (1). pp. 199-212.

Klein, Jakob A. (2007) 'Redefining Cantonese cuisine in post-Mao Guangzhou.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 70 (3). pp. 511-537.

Book Reviews

Klein, Jakob A. (2023) 'Review: What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, by Michael J. Hathaway, foreword by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.' Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 23 (2). pp. 104-105.