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The Peranakan Chinese Home: Art and Culture in Daily Life
Ronald G. Knapp
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Description for The Peranakan Chinese Home: Art and Culture in Daily Life
Hardcover. 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 jewellery, and many other art objects. Num Pages: 160 pages, over 400 photographs-all in colour except a few older photos included for historical refe. BIC Classification: 1FM; ACBP; HBTB; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216. Weight in Grams: 1106.
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 jewellery, 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 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 ... Read more
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 jewellery, 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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Boston, United States
ISBN
9780804848909
SKU
V9780804848909
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Ref
99-12
About Ronald G. Knapp
Ronald G. Knapp has been carrying out research in China's countryside on cultural and historical geography since 1965. Currently SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York, New Paltz, he is the author, contributing author, or editor of twenty books, including the award-winning Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation and Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia: ... Read more
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