Chinese Houses Of Southeast Asia

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781462905874

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Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781462906680

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Chinese Houses by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Architecture "Book of the Year" Award! Exquisite examples of traditional dwellings are scattered throughout modern-day China. Chinese Houses focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional Chinese homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China. The photographs of each are accompanied by extensive background information and historical content. An introductory essay examines the different types of Chinese homes and provides an overview of the rich regional variety of Chinese dwelling forms. It also provides insights into little-known design concepts that emphasize the flexibility, adaptability, and versatility of traditional building forms and the work of traditional craftsmen. Richly illustrated with photographs, woodblock prints, historic images, and line drawings, Chinese Houses portrays an architectural tradition of amazing range and resilience.

Author : Signe Howell,Stephen Sparkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136824524

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The House in Southeast Asia by Signe Howell,Stephen Sparkes Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781462911851

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Peranakan Chinese Home by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony Reid
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824824466

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Sojourners and Settlers by Anthony Reid Pdf

Only recently has the role of Chinese minorities at the forefront of Southeast Asia's rapid economic growth attracted world attention. Yet interactions between Chinese and Southeast Asians are longstanding and intense, reaching back a thousand years and making it difficult, if not specious, to attempt to disentangle what is Chinese and what is indigenous in much of Southeast Asian culture. Sojourners and Settlers, now back in print, written by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field, demonstrates the depth of that relationship. Contributors: Leonard Blussé, Mary Somers Heidhues, Jamie C. Mackie, Anthony Reid, Craig Reynolds, Claudine Salmon, G. William Skinner, Wang Gungwu, O. W. Wolters.

Author : Johannes Widodo
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish Academic
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114159259

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The Boat and the City by Johannes Widodo Pdf

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

Author : Jacques Dumarçay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015013418176

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The House in South-East Asia by Jacques Dumarçay Pdf

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.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789814414135

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Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Glossary and index by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

This is a bold project recording the lives of a particular group of Southeast Asians. Most of the people whose biographies are included here have settled down in the ten countries that constitute the region. Each of them has either self-identified as Chinese or is comfortable to be known as someone of Chinese ancestry. There are also those who were born in China or elsewhere who came here to work and do business, including seeking help from others who have ethnic Chinese connections. With the political and economic conditions of the region in a great state of flux for the past two centuries, it is impossible to find consistency in the naming process. Confucius had stressed that correct names make for the best relationships. In this case, Professor Leo Suryadinata has been pursuing for decades the elusive goal of finding the right name to give to the large numbers of people who have, in one way or another, made their homes in, or made some difference to, Southeast Asia. I believe that, when he and his colleagues selected the biographies to be included here, they have taken a big step towards the rectification of identities for many leading personalities. In so doing, he has done us all a great service. - Professor Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780824881115

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China's Old Dwellings by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation (UH Press, 1999), together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of fieldwork and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages. China's Old Dwellings begins by tracing the interest in Chinese vernacular buildings in the twentieth century. Early chapters detail common and distinctive spatial components, including the interior and exterior modular spaces that are axiomatic components of most Chinese dwellings as well as conventional structural components and building materials common in Chinese construction. Later chapters examine representative housing types in the three broad cultural realms--northern, southern, and western--into which China has been divided. Knapp completes his survey with an exploration of China's old dwellings in the context of the rapid economic and social changes that are destroying so many of them.

Author : Hock-Tong Cheu
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781543765519

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Chinese Beliefs and Practices in Southeast Asia by Hock-Tong Cheu Pdf

This book consists of fifteen chapters which can be divided into five major themes: (i) Chinese religion, (ii) Chinese attitudes toward religion, (iii) Chinese spirit cults in Malaysia, (iv) the development of local spirit cults, and (v) major festivals celebrated in Malaysia. The first section deals with three Chinese religious traditions in Malaysia, in particular, and other countries like Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand in Southeast Asia, in general. The second section attempts to discuss on Chinese attitudes towards religion, Chinese religious conception and its implication in their social life, and how Confucian ethics have contributed to the economic success of the Chinese in Malaysia. The Third section seeks to examine the various aspects of the Nine Emperor Gods, the Datuk Kong (Malay keramat), and the spread of Malay and Chinese spirit cults to Sabah, East Malaysia. The fourth section deliberates on three major processes of change in the development of spirit cults in Malaysia: the localization of Chinese locality cults, including Tudigong and Dabogong, the Sinicization of the Malay keramat, and the indigenization or desinicization of an aboriginal Datuk Seman in Broga, Selangor. And the last section winds up with the practical aspects of celebrating festivals in Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on festivals in general in the Chinese calendar, the festival of the Nine Emperor Gods in Southeast Asia, and the socio-psychological aspects of the Nine Emperor Gods Vegetarian Festival in Thailand.

Author : Abidin Kusno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783487585

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Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia by Abidin Kusno Pdf

Explores how the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia construct themselves through material reproduction.

Author : Jennifer Cushman,Gungwu Wang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622092075

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Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II by Jennifer Cushman,Gungwu Wang Pdf

In June 1985, a symposium, "Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere in Australia, North America and Southeast Asia. Participants looked at the current thinking about the parameters of identity and shared their own research into the complex issues that overlapping categories of identity raise. Identity was chosen as the focus of the, symposium because perceptions of self - whether by others or by the individual Chinese concerned - appear to lie at the heart ' of the present-day Chinese experience in Southeast Asia, It is also evident that identity wears many guises and that we cannot talk about a single Chinese identity when identity can be determined by the different political, social, economic or religious circumstances an individual faces at any given time. One of the distinctive characteristics of all the essays in this volume is that they are written from an historical perspective. While the papers forcus on how recent developments in Southeast Asian society have shaped Chinese identity, they also discuss those changes in terms of the historical matrix from which they developed. Because many of the essays in this volume combine an historical overview with more recent statistical data, it should serve as a useful companion to the increasingly popular case studies in which much of the writing about the Chinese in Southeast Asia is now cast.

Author : Victor Purcell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Chinese in Southeastern Asia
ISBN : OCLC:47826927

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The Chinese in Southeast Asia by Victor Purcell Pdf

Author : Victor Purcell,Royal Institute of International Affairs
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822010504918

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The Chinese in Southeast Asia by Victor Purcell,Royal Institute of International Affairs Pdf

Historical study of the migration of Chinese in Myanmar, Thailand, North and South Viet Nam, Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Malaysia, borneo, Indonesia and Philippines. Their place in the social structure, occupational structure and politics. Social status and educational level. Bibliography pp. 574-610. 2 maps.

Author : Takeshi Hamashita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134040285

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China, East Asia and the Global Economy by Takeshi Hamashita Pdf

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue durée, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research. Engaging modernization, Marxist and world system approaches, his wide-ranging redefinition of the evolving relationships between the East Asia regional system and the world economy from the sixteenth century to the present has sent ripples throughout Asian and international scholarship. His research has led him to reconceptualize the position of China first in the context of an East Asian regional order and subsequently within the framework of a wider Euro-American-Asian trade and financial order that was long gestating within, and indeed contributing to the shape of, the world market. This book presents a selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's oeuvre on Asian trade to introduce this important historian's work to the English speaking reader. It examines the many critical issues surrounding China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy, including: Maritime perspectives on China, Asia and the world economy Intra-Asian trade Chinese state finance and the tributary trade system Banking and finance Maritime customs.