Straits Chinese Beadwork and Embroidery
| Author | : Wing Meng Ho |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Beadwork |
| ISBN | : 9789812324801 |
Straits Chinese Beadwork And Embroidery
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Straits Chinese Embroidery & Beadwork
| Author | : Lillian Tong |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Beadwork, Peranakan |
| ISBN | : 9789671069035 |
Peranakan Chinese Home
| Author | : Ronald G. Knapp |
| Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 2013-03-10 |
| Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
| ISBN | : 1462911854 |
Discover the rarified Peranakan (native-born Chinese of Southeast Asia) aesthetics that are today highly sought-after for their beauty: distinctive furniture and ceramics, textiles and jewelry, and many other art objects. Peranakan Chinese Home displays these extraordinary objects, visible markers of a highly developed culture. The broad range of beautiful objects which the Peranakan Chinese created and enjoyed in their daily lives is astounding. Each chapter in The Peranakan Chinese Home focuses on a different area and presents objects used or found in those spaces. Each piece is described in the context of their utility as household objects, as part of periodic celebrations to mark the Chinese New Year and other holidays, or in important life passage rituals relating to ancestor worship, birth, marriage, mourning and burial. The meaning of the rich symbolic and ornamental motifs found on the objects is discussed in detail and key differences are highlighted between Peranakan objects and similar ones found in China. A fascinating mix of Chinese, European and Southeast Asian influences, the distinctly Peranakan identity of a people and their culture is beautifully portrayed through objects and archival photographs in this lovely and exotic book.
A Peranakan Legacy
| Author | : Peter Wee |
| Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2011-11-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9814677531 |
A Peranakan Legacy captures the rich heritage of a fast disappearing way of life and put on record many traditions and practices which were previously handed only down from generation to generation. The term ‘Baba’ is used to refer to the Straits-born Chinese or Peranakans. The Babas boast a unique culture and way of life that is an amalgamation of Chinese and Malay customs and etiquette. Their culture is perhaps best captured in the beautiful clothing, stunning jewellery, pretty porcelain and other artefacts used in daily living. Girls were taught, from a young age, how to cook a variety of elaborate meals as well as crafts such as beading and embroidery. The result is a rich legacy of splendid kebayas (embroidered blouses), beadwork and various other items. Through lavish, full-colour photographs of Peranakan artefacts and clothing, this book explains the origins of the various customs and traditions. While some customs are still practiced today, other more complicated ones have disappeared as modern babas adapted to contemporary lifestyles which are deemed more convenient and practical.
Phoenix Rising
| Author | : Hwei-Fe'n Cheah |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Using Nyonya beadwork as both a lens and an object of study, Hwei-Fe'n Cheah explores historical, social and cultural transformations in the Peranakan Chinese community. Phoenix Rising provides social scientists with tangible tools for examining concepts of modernity and tradition. For gender theorists, Phoenix Rising exemplifies the way time was used for beadwork and embroidery, thus crafting notions of Nyonya culture and identity. The reader is simultaneously taken on two journeys, the one pictorial, the other analytic, to learn about the changing ways in which meaning intersects with items of material culture---historically and currently. The combination is a visually and intellectually exciting example of multi-disciplinary research that is also aesthetically stunning. Barbara Leigh Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney --
The Straits Chinese
| Author | : Joo Ee Khoo |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Geschiedenis van Chinese kooplieden die zich vestigden in Maleisie aan de Straat van Malakka
Asian Material Culture
| Author | : Marianne Hulsbosch |
| Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9089640908 |
This richly illustrated volume offers the reader unique insight into the materiality of Asian cultures and the ways in which objects and practices can simultaneously embody and exhibit aesthetic and functional characteristics, as well as everyday and spiritual aspirations. Though each chapter is representative, rather than exhaustive, in its portrayal of Asian material culture, together they clearly demonstrate that objects are entities that resonate with discourses of human relationships, personal and group identity formations, ethics, values, trade, and, above all, distinctive futures.
The Straits Chinese House
| Author | : Peter Lee |
| Publisher | : Didier Millet,Csi |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The Straits Chinese or Peranakan community is perhaps one of the oldest overseas Chinese communities in history, having established itself in the Malay archipelago as early as the seventeenth century.
Straits Chinese Gold Jewellery
| Author | : Lillian Tong |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Peranakan (Chinese) |
| ISBN | : 9789671069028 |
A General History Of The Chinese In Singapore
| Author | : Chong Guan Kwa |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 1002 |
| Release | : 2019-06-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9813277653 |
A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in the region through the millennium-old Hokkien trading world to the waves of mass migration that came after the establishment of a British settlement, and through to the development and birth of the nation. Across 38 chapters and parts, readers are taken through the complex historical mosaic of Overseas Chinese social, economic and political activity in Singapore and the region, such as the development of maritime junk trade, plantation industries, and coolie labour, the role of different bangs, clan associations and secret societies as well as Chinese leaders, the diverging political allegiances including Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities and the National Salvation Movement leading up to the Second World War, the transplanting of traditional Chinese religions, the changing identity of the Overseas Chinese, and the developments in language and education policies, publishing, arts, and more.With 'Pride in our Past, Legacy for our Future' as its key objective, this volume aims to preserve the Singapore Chinese story, history and heritage for future generations, as well as keep our cultures and traditions alive. Therefore, the book aims to serve as a comprehensive guide for Singaporeans, new immigrants and foreigners to have an epitome of the Singapore society. This publication is supported by the National Heritage Board's Heritage Project Grant.Related Link(s)
