Projects
Translation work, teaching material, language tools, and ongoing experiments.
Alex Thomas
Writing, notes, translations, travel logs, and source material.
This part of the site holds the longer, slower material: projects with an argument behind them, travel writing with narrative shape, and source texts that matter because of what they illuminate.
Browse the work
Section titled “Browse the work”Travel
Place-based writing, diaries, and essays from movement through Asia and Europe.
Books
Historical Chinese language sources, grammars, and notes that benefit from curation.
Photography
Photographs from cities, travel, and ordinary encounters, organized by attention rather than by gear or chronology.
Start here
Section titled “Start here”- Around the World - A long trip narrative across Asia and Europe, full of language learning and ground-level detail.
- Poetry translations - Annotated translations that show how language, explanation, and design meet.
- English teaching - Practical teaching work that broadens the portfolio beyond purely literary interests.