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Authored Books

Latham, Kevin (2007) Pop Culture China! Media, Arts and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Martinez, Dolores and Latham, Kevin, eds. (2010) Documenting the Beijing Olympics. London: Routledge. (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives)

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

Latham, Kevin (2016) 'Differentiating Cynicisms: Irony, cynicism and new media in contemporary China.' In: Steinmüller, Hans and Brandtstädter, Susanne, (eds.), Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State. London: Routledge, pp. 155-173. (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

Latham, Kevin (2015) 'Media and discourses of Chinese integration in Prato, Italy.' In: Baldassar, Loretta, Johanson, Graeme, McAuliffe, Narelle and Bressan, Massimo, (eds.), Chinese Migration to Europe: Prato, Italy and Beyond. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 139-158.

Wu, Bin and Latham, Kevin (2014) 'Migration from China to the EU: The Challenge within Europe.' In: Brown, Kerry, (ed.), China and the EU in Context: Insights for Business and Investors. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 303-327.

Latham, Kevin (2013) 'New Media and Subjectivity in China: Problematizing the Public Sphere.' In: Defraigne, Pierre and Florence, Eric, (eds.), Towards a New Development Paradigm in Twenty-First Century China. Oxon; New York: Routledge, pp. 203-217. (Comparative Development and Policy in Asia)

Latham, Kevin (2012) 'Unimagined China: Media, Technologies and the Fragmentation of National Olympic Audiences.' In: Mangan, James A., Luo, Qing and Collins, Sandra, (eds.), The Triple Asian Olympics Asia Ascendant : Media, Politics, Geopolitics. New York: Routledge.

Latham, Kevin (2012) 'Consumption and Leisure.' In: Tay, William S. and So, Alvin Y., (eds.), Handbook of Contemporary China. New Jersey: World Scientific, pp. 437-454.

Latham, Kevin (2009) 'Media and the Limits of Cynicism in Postsocialist China.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. New York: Berghahn Books.

Latham, Kevin (2008) 'SMS, Communication, And Citizenship in China's Information Society.' In: Murphy, Rachel and Fong, Vanessa L., (eds.), Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China. Abingdon: Routledge.

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.

Latham, Kevin (2002) 'Rethinking Chinese Consumption: Social Palliatives and the Rhetorics of Transition in Postsocialist China.' In: Hann, C.M., (ed.), Postsocialism. Ideals, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 217-237.

Journal Article

Latham, Kevin (2020) 'Dislocating contested space: resource competition, cultural technologies and migrant space in Milan’s Chinatown.' Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 28 (4). pp. 944-960.

Latham, Kevin (2016) 'Western China, Popular Culture, and the Ambiguous Centrality of the Periphery.' Occasion, 10. pp. 1-16.

Latham, Kevin (2012) 'Unimagined China: Media, Technologies and the Fragmentation of National Olympic Audiences.' The International Journal of the History of Sport, 29 (17). pp. 2311-2325.

Latham, Kevin (2009) 'Media, the Olympics and the Search for the “Real China”.' The China Quarterly, 197. pp. 25-43.

Latham, Kevin (2007) 'SMS, Communication, and Citizenship in China's Information Society.' Critical Asian Studies, 39 (2). pp. 295-314.

Latham, Kevin (2004) 'Channel specialisation viewed from the perspective or provincial level television [in China]. (cong shengji dianshi kan pindao zhuanyehua).' South China Television Journal, 1 (45). pp. 43-47.

Latham, Kevin (2000) 'Consuming Fantasies: Mediated Stardom in Hong Kong Cantonese Opera and Cinema.' Modern China, 26 (3). pp. 309-347.

Latham, Kevin (2000) 'Nothing but the Truth: News Media, Power and Hegemony in South China.' The China Quarterly, 163. pp. 633-654.