A growing collection
We have gathered manuscripts and folk texts spanning multiple scripts, languages, and materials. They preserve traces of migration, ritual, belief, and everyday knowledge. Our aim is to make dispersed local memories visible, researchable, and transmissible.
The earlier Southeast Asia collection page recorded 200+ manuscripts and folk texts. My current CV gives the broader project totals as 293 manuscripts co-collected and 100+ digitized. These are distinct measures: collecting a volume and digitizing it are different stages of work.
Description, access, and continuity
As manuscript researcher, curator, and digitization lead, I create descriptive metadata alongside digital copies. Materials have been shared with Minzu University of China, and 12 volumes were donated to the National Archives, as recorded in my CV.
The collection connects with my work on variant Chinese characters, ethnic scripts, and manuscript interpretation.
Project description adapted from my original website and current CV.