Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurants and the Changing Meanings of Meat in Urban China

Ethnos

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 252-276

  Klein, Jakob A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buddhism; China; meat; restaurants; vegetarianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958529424     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2015.1084016     Document Type: Article

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