Gilding the Phoenix: The Straits Chinese and Their Jewellery Peter Lee 000 large and small islands

000 large and small islands in the vast sea area of ​​Southeast Asia

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Yet the intention here is in no way to compartmentalise the works of art but rather to provide points of departure for celebrating the richness and variety that exist within each country

these artefacts illustrate some of the similarities and subtle differences between the sister Peranakan societies situated on both sides of the Straits of Malacca

but its other values are losing or have lost relevance

Gilding the Phoenix: The Straits Chinese and Their Jewellery Peter Lee 000 large and small islandsDuring the hundred years between 1850 and 1950, Insular and Peninsular South East Asia was the site of the birth, growth and decline of a unique community that of the Straits Chinese or Peranakans. During that time, this community found themselves at the nexus of the Chinese, Malay, European and Indian worlds, with Chinese migrants adapting to the cosmopolitan environment in which they found themselves. The story of the Peranakans and their art is