Research interest: food, empty-nesters, ethnobotany, culture-based development
Wu Xu (2016) Local Foods in China. In: Cooking Cultures: Convergent Histories of Food and Feeling, edited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube. Cambridge University Press, pp139-157.
Wu Xu (2016) Ethnic Foods as Unprepared Materials and as Cuisines in a Culture-based Development Project in Southwest China. Asian Ethnology, 75(2):417-437. [A&HCI]
Wu Xu (2015) Wild Edible Plants and Pilgrimage on Wudang Mountain. Journal of Ethnobiology, 35(3): 606-627. [SSCI]
Wu Xu (2014) The Farmhouse Joy (nongjiale) Movement in China's Ethnic Minority Villages. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 15(2): 158-177. [SSCI]