The Peranakan Website serves to promote, preserve and sustain Peranakan culture
Peranakan women emerged from the cosmopolitan, mixed-race environment of Dutch and British colonial towns several centuries ago, via unions between Chinese migrant males from Fujian, and enslaved females from Bali, Sumatra or Sulawesi among other islands. They have been, from the very beginning, adept at performing a balancing act, or I daresay, at catwalking, or even doing the lenggang-lenggok, on the tight-rope of cultural identity.
In these times of instant enlightenment, we start our quest by deferring to the almighty automation most commonly known as a Google search – the easiest way to call up all manner of information; a chance, literally, to “google” practically anything you might fancy! Search term: “Peranakan fashion”. Web results: approximately 390,000 instances. Images found: [...]
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