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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