Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia write by Ronald G. Knapp. This book was released on 2013-02-12. Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring over 350 beautiful photographs, Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia captures the architectural heritage of a vibrant community. The multiple Chinese migrations from southeastern China to Southeast Asia have had important implications for both regions. In Southeast Asia this influence can be seen in the architecturally eclectic homes these migrants and their descendants built as they became successful; homes that combined Chinese, European and local influences, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia strives not only to be an informative but also an authoritative book on the subject of hybrid architecture--filled with stunning color photographs and essays on nearly thirty well-preserved homes. An introductory essay portrays the historical circumstances that gave rise to Chinese houses overseas, and includes historic images, color photographs, paintings and line drawings. At the core of the book is a comprehensive set of stunning color photographs of nearly thirty well-preserved homes built by Chinese immigrants and their descendants in various countries of Southeast Asia. Images and drawings from southeastern China help clarify similarities and differences. For each home, extensive captions accompany the photographs and the essay supplies background information concerning the individual and family who built and resided in each house. The historical context, nature of the building, and the restoration history of the home is included. Extensive information about the symbolism implicit in the decorative elements that make up each of the homes is presented. This includes an examination of ornamental elements that are Chinese in origin as well as those decorative components that are Western. Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia has been written in a nontechnical style, accessible to lay readers who are interested in the extraordinary architectural heritage of China, much of which is only now beginning to be appreciated.
The House in South-East Asia
The House in South-East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House in South-East Asia write by Jacques Dumarçay. This book was released on 1987. The House in South-East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, lavishly illustrated with colour plates and line drawings by the author, covers traditional domestic architectural forms from the earliest reconstructions of Don Song culture through the different regional variants on the mainland and in the archipelago.
The House in Southeast Asia
The House in Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House in Southeast Asia write by Signe Howell. This book was released on 2013-07-04. The House in Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the concept of 'house' in the context of Levi-Strauss' idea of the house as a link between kinship-based societies and class societies, developing this further into an examination of a conjuncture of architecture, people and symbolism.
Peranakan Chinese Home
Peranakan Chinese Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peranakan Chinese Home write by Ronald G. Knapp. This book was released on 2013-03-10. Peranakan Chinese Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Boat and the City
The Boat and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boat and the City write by Johannes Widodo. This book was released on 2004. The Boat and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The series Chinese Diaspora and Southeast Asian Coastal Cities adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the materiality of culture from architectural, geographical, sociological, anthropological, cultural, political and other perspectives. Through the knowledge obtained from the tangible living environment, the series aims to increase recognition and promotion of the value of integration of Southeast Asian cultural diversity. The first set of monographs in the series focuses on Indonesia (coastal cities of Semarang, Palembang, Pontianak, Tegal) and will be published in 2005. Subsequent sets of monographs, to be published in 2006 and beyond, will focus on coastal cities of Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Myanmar and Singapore. The Singapore Chinese Heritage Centre is a non-profit international institution with a special focus on the history and culture of the Chinese Diaspora. The keynote of a monograph series by the Singapore Chinese Heritage Centre, Th
