BOGE XIAO · PORTFOLIO

Selected projects.

Research, collecting, teaching and journalism. Papers from the same continuing study are grouped together; individual field stories have their own notebook.

6 projects · All interests

An open manuscript spread on yellowed paper, covered in vertical columns of handwritten characters with small red marks among the black ink.

Cultural Rhythms of Writing

A continuing study since 2024, from variant characters to manuscript use and legibility. Papers and conferences are successive stages of one inquiry.

A group of adults and a child stand outdoors beside a rural road with hills and trees behind them.

Listening across Southwest China

Oral histories, language surveys, and field encounters with the Geyang Language Branch Research Team.

Two embroidered phoenix-like birds face one another, with long curling tails in red, green, and black thread on pale silk.

Wonders in silk

An embroidered album in my collection: read its labels, inspect its stitches, and follow a question about European costume imagery.

A dispersed manuscript world

Collecting, describing, and digitizing manuscripts that carry ritual, migration, belief, and everyday knowledge.

A newspaper, a public conversation

Founding a school newspaper and creating opportunities for student reporting and editorial practice.

Conceptual illustration: a cream notebook and loose pages on a slate-blue table beside a pencil, a terracotta disk, and a small branch.

Boge Cosmos

Latin and Greek roots become a shared space for language learning through bilingual worksheets and tutoring.