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.
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ISBN
9781462911851
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Tuttle Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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