CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Bokeh Kosang

Taiwanese actor

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ11070938 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bokeh Kosang (Chinese: 徐詣帆; pinyin: Xú Yìfān, born 26 July 1980) is a Taiwanese actor and singer of Truku ethnicity.

He is noted for his roles as Hanaoka Ichiro in the film Seediq Bale, which earned him a Supporting Actor Award at the 46th Golden Bell Awards.

Early life

Bokeh Kosang was born and raised in Wanrong Township of Hualien County, Taiwan. He graduated from Chinese Culture University, majoring in vocal music.

Career

Bokeh Kosang first rose to prominence in 2011 for playing Hanaoka Ichiro in the film Seediq Bale. The film reached number one in the ratings when it aired in Taiwan.

Editorial summary

“Bokeh Kosang” enters the record as taiwanese actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bokeh, Kosang and Taiwanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-07-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bokeh, Kosang and Taiwanese.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bokeh Kosang” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bokeh, Kosang and Taiwanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11070938. VIAF identifies the subject as 4863170592505610550002. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 2011.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bokeh Kosang”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bokeh Kosang primary sources, Bokeh Kosang archive and Bokeh research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Bokeh Kosang”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bokeh Kosang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.