{"id":16660,"date":"2025-09-17T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=16660"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:19:52","slug":"xuesong-liu","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/xuesong-liu\/","title":{"rendered":"Xuesong Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Matriculated September 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<div>\u00a0China, urbanization, environment &amp; rurality, affect theory, sociolinguistics<\/div>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<p>Xuesong Liu is a graduate student in the MAPA program. He is interested in environmental knowledge and the urbanization taking place in northern China\u2019s township-level regions. Particularly, in the context of Chinese townships, how does physical space influence and shape cultural memory, local knowledge, and the construction of a sense of place? In the rural and marginalized space, how built environment affects human perception? Xuesong hopes to take the vernacular landscape as an entry point to delve into the deeper dimensions of China\u2019s rurality, grassroots dynamics, and regional culture. In doing so, he seeks to illuminate mundane life in the peripheral regions of China amid rapid urbanization. Before coming to Boston University, Xuesong completed his Bachelor of Design in Architecture at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n<h3>Awards &amp; Grants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><em>forthcoming<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>forthcoming<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":17621,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/16660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/16660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16662,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/16660\/revisions\/16662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}