Straits Chinese Beadwork and Embroidery: A Collector's Guide

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Ovesize hardcover with light shelf wear only, clean, tightly bound, unmarked. Minor wear to dust jackeet, clean, spine not sunned. Summary: Highlights beadwork and embroidery by the mainland Chinese craftsmen to Straits Chinese specifications. This book covers the comparison of beadwork fabricated by Straits nonyas with the Indonesian perankan variety, and includes an account of silk and sericulture. It has over 90 illustrations of rare beadwork and embroidery in full colour. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. N° de ref. del artículo 23573

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Acerca del autor: Apart from his four books on Straits Chinese cultural heritage, for which he is better known outside the academic world. Dr Ho Wing Meng has also published over 25 academic articles in various journals and books on a variety of topics ranging from Formal Logic, the Philosophy of Science. Values and Education to Social and Political Studies. Educated at the University of Malaya in Singapore and Oxford University in England. Dr Ho Wing Meng taught and lectured in Philosophy at the National University of Singapore for 33 years. He was appointed Head of the Philosophy Dept in 1970 and retired as Associate Professor in 1993. His books in the Straits Chinese Heritage series were mainly written in between lecture and seminar commitments, and administrative duties. Since his retirement, Dr. Ho has turned his attention to the Chinese porcelain of the Ming Dinesty.