SCHOOL OF FUTURE DESIGN, BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
Xiao Yunxiao 

Xiao Yunxiao

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Art Anthropology; Art and Cultural Heritage

Education:

B.A., Hohai University

M.A., Southeast University

Ph.D., Beijing Normal University

Selected Publications:

Meng Fanxing, Xiao Yunxiao. “Technique, Aesthetics, and Belief: The Three Elements of Folk Craft Creation and Their Collaborative Mechanism.” Journal of Shanxi University (Philosophy & Social Sciences) (CSSCI), No. 4, 2026.

Xiao Yunxiao. “The Contemporary Construction of Festival Visual Imagery and the Reinforcement of the Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation.” Journal of Xihua University (Philosophy & Social Sciences), No. 3, 2026.

Xiao Yunxiao, Meng Fanxing. “Telling, Ethnography, and Aura: Toward Artistic Ethnographic Research.” Studies in Ethnic Arts (CSSCI), No. 3, 2025. Reprinted in Chinese Social Sciences Digest, No. 11, 2025, as a selected viewpoint.

Meng Fanxing, Xiao Yunxiao. “Literary Images, Cultural Landscapes, and Spiritual Homelands: ‘Red Sorghum’ in the Context of Chinese Culture.” Art Review, No. 3, 2024.

Research Projects:

Participated in the General Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Research on the Methodology of Chinese Artistic Ethnography.”

Participated in the Key Special Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Research on Chinese Visual Images and the Common Spiritual Homeland of the Chinese Nation.”

Participated in the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China: “Research on the Contemporary Transmission of Traditional Chinese Arts,” including the sub-project “Research on the Contemporary Transmission and Practice System of Traditional Chinese Arts.”