Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia: The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers

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Over a period of several years, noted Chinese cultural historian Ronald G. Knapp traveled all through Southeast Asia, searching out homes built by the first generations of successful Chinese settlers throughout the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia, Knapp presents an eye-opening account of how Chinese migration into Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam spawned a unique hybrid architectural style that combined Chinese, European, and local influences.

Many of these in a foreign country Chinese heritage homes are disappearing, but Knapp—at the side of renowned photographer A. Chester Ong—visited numerous the shophouses, bungalows, villas, and mansions that remain.

More than three dozen of these elegant residences form the core of this book, and through essays, historic photographs, paintings, and line drawings, Knapp draws an illuminating portrait of each and every place of abode at the side of background details about the families who built and lived in them. These profiles reveal the entrepreneurial spirit of the Chinese in addition to their social and economic circumstances. A stunning marriage of scholarship and photography, Chinese Houses of Southeast Asia explores a little known branch of Chinese architecture and provides a new standpoint on Chinese migration, settlement, and identity in Southeast Asia.
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