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A Baba Malay Dictionary - William Gwee Thian Hock
A Baba Malay Dictionary... -... William Gwee Thian Hock... One of the great joys of spoken language is the clues the language gives to the speakers' way of life. Baba Malay, the language spoken by by descendants of early Chinese immigrants to the Malay peninsula who intermarried with Malays, is no...
Price: $16.00
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A Baba Wedding - Cheo Kim Ban
A Baba Wedding... by... Cheo Kim Ban... The Babas and Nyonyas, or Straits Chinese, are the descendants of early Chinese immigrants and their Malay host community. In the course of time their culture has evolved into a heritage distinct from their Chinese and Malay compatriots in Malaysia and Singapore. One...
Price: $29.00
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A Peranakan Legacy - Peter HL Wee
A Peranakan Legacy... -... Peter HL Wee... New. This is probably the best comprehensive, but handy, introduction to Straits Chinese culture on the market. The book doesn't strive to be academic, trying rather to focus mainly on the day to day lifestyle enjoyed by the Peranakans and the domestic items they...
Price: $26.00
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Amber Road - Boyd Anderson
Amber Road... by... Boyd Anderson... New. This novel is an intense family drama ranging from the start to the end of the Second World War in British Malaya. At its centre is Victoria Khoo, the pampered daughter of a wealthy Straits Chinese, who has to put aside her dreams of...
Price: $16.00
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Journey Through Malacca - H. Berbar
Journey Through Malacca... by... H. Berbar... New. Berbar, a Parisian, but based in Malaysia, demonstrates why he's a prize winning photographer with this fine collection of photographs of Malaysia's oldest colonial city. However it's not a coffee table picture book as it's reasonably light in weight, more affordable than most...
Price: $12.00
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Like Tigers Around a Piece of Meat - Philip L. Thomas
Like Tigers Around a Piece of Meat... --... Philip L. Thomas... The author sets out to trace the history of Dondang Sayang, a style of poetic snging, known as pantun, which originated in Malacca and spread elsewhere. This book concentrates particularly on the Baba Chinese contributions to the art... 83 pages...
Price: $26.00
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Melaka From the Top - Dennis De Witt
Melaka From the Top... by... Dennis De Witt... New. This book charts the development of Melaka, also known as Malacca, with a collection of photographs, both new and historic, of the city from every angle. Unusually, as the book's title implies, a significant amount of photographs are taken from the...
Price: $18.00
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Modern Nyonya - Sylvia Tan
Modern Nyonya... -... Sylvia Tan... This book is a collection of Sylvia Tan's favourite Peranakan recipes simplified for busy modern life. Sylvia, a modern Nyonya herself, explains the food culture of the Peranakans in detail. An essential part of Peranakan cooking are the spice pastes whose fundamental ingredients and their purpose...
Price: $20.00
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Nyonya Kuih Passions - Andrew Kow
Nyonya Kuih Passions... - - -... Andrew Kow... New. This book - bilingual in Chinese and English - introduces the kuih (sweets) of Nyonya cuisine, i.e food prepared by descendants of Malaysia's mixed Chinese and Malay community, that mix Chinese, Malay and Thai cooking traditions. 50 recipes for deserts and sweets are carefully explained...
Price: $30.00
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Penang: Authentic Nyonya Cuisine: Mother's Recipes - Tan Bee Lee
Penang: Authentic Nyonya Cuisine: Mother's Recipes... - - -... Tan Bee Lee... New. Nyonya cuisine is a style of cooking developed by the descendants of intermarriage between early Chinese immigrants and Malays, often known as the Straits Chinese. Their cooking is a blend of Chinese and Malay styles as well. This well illustrated...
Price: $39.00
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Straits Chinese A Collector's Guide - Boxed Set - Ho Wing Meng
Straits Chinese... A Collector's Guide... Boxed Set... by... Ho Wing Meng... New. This boxed set contains all four of the author's well know and trusted guides on the crafts of the Straits Chinese, the descendants of intermarriages between early Chinese settlers in Malaya and their host community. Many in the...
Price: $97.00
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Straits Chinese Silver - Ho Wing Meng
Straits Chinese Silver:... A Collector's Guide... by... Ho Wing Meng... New. The book's lavish collection of more than 100 colour photographs may give the impression that this is yet another coffee table book, but after reading a few paragraphs you will realise that collectors are the author's intended audience. As...
Price: $30.00
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Straits Chinese Society - John R. Clammer
Straits Chinese Society... by... John R. Clammer... Clammer in his introduction states that he believes amidst the rich cultural and ethnic diversity that exists in Southeast Asia a strong case could be made for the culture of the Straits Chinese as being the most interesting. In this work he demonstrates...
Price: $69.00
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The Advocate's Devil - Walter Woon
The Advocate's Devil -... --... Walter Woon... New.This is the first of Woon's The Advocate's Devil Trilogy about a young English trained lawyer returning home to Singapore. Practicing law in the Straits Settlements of the 1930s, Dennis Chiang, gets caught up in drama and adventure both in and outside the courtroom...
Price: $16.00
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The Chinese in Malaya - Victor Purcell
The Chinese in Malaya... - -... Victor Purcell... Purcell, drawing on the experiences of his twenty year career in the Malayan Civil Service, including being Principal Adviser on Chinese Affairs immediately after World War II, produced the first study of the Chinese community in the country. 327 pages. The book is divided...
Price: $66.00
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The Devil to Pay - Walter Woon
The Devil to Pay... --... Walter Woon... New.This is the second of Woon's The Advocate's Devil Trilogy about a young English trained lawyer in Singapore. Dennis Chiang is diverted from his regular law practice when he is recruited as an undercover agent for the British just before the fall of...
Price: $16.00
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The Pinang Peranakan Mansion - Chan Suan Choo
The Pinang Peranakan Mansion:... A Museum of Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage... - - Chan Suan Choo... New. One of Penang's must see sights is the Penang Peranakan mansion, which is not only a well-preserved and restored example of the opulent houses that Penang businessmen have been building for themselves for a...
Price: $28.00
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The Straits Chinese: A Cultural History - Khoo Joo Ee
The Straits Chinese:... A Cultural History... by... Khoo Joo Ee... New. Khoo, curator of the Asian Art Museum in Kuala Lumpur when she wrote this book, was an art historian by training and a Preanakan, or Straits Chinese, by birth. However, this book is not just another collection of beautiful...
Price: $36.00
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Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka - Nordin Hussin
Trade and Society in the Straits of Melaka:... Dutch Melaka and English Penang 1780-1830... - -... Nordin Hussin... New. While the more traditional histories of Southeast Asia and elsewhere has been primarily political, i.e. studies of men and women at the centre of power, there has been a growing trend...
Price: $20.00
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Truly Nyonya Malacca - Jacky Liew
Truly Nyonya Malacca... - - -... Jacky Liew... New. This book - another! - claims to present recipies of true Nyonya cuisine, i.e food prepared by descendants of Malaysia's mixed Chinese and Malay community. The author set about visiting various restaurants in Malacca to collect their recipies for this book. He claims that Penang...
Price: $10.00
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Truly Nyonya Penang - Chong Moi Eng
Truly Nyonya Penang... - - -... Chong Moi Eng... New. This book - bilingual in Chinese and English - presents recipes of Nyonya cuisine, i.e food prepared by descendants of Malaysia's mixed Chinese and Malay community, that mix Chinese, Malay and Thai cooking traditions. Chapters include those on Sauces, Chicken, Duck, other Meat, Seafood...
Price: $10.00
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