This charming exhibition on decorative arts from the Chinese merchants long established south of the Malay Peninsula, a pleasant surprise those who know and those who know Branly China. It can be visited in about an hour. There is a space for children within the expo.
Branly is more oriented towards the arts ethnic and primitive art. The style here is quite purely Chinese, and therefore would be more logically presented at the Guimet Museum or the Museum Cernuschi in Paris.
The beginning of the exhibition devoted to the typical Peranakan house, descendants established Chinese did not surprise too early. Reproduction of town houses both bright colors and pastels, dishes patterned pink, lime green and other colors, use of glass beads for clothes in large and small events, the merger with certain customs malay, including clothing, use of accessories or other western Asian countries, gold jewelry, precious stones, etc.. tradition blends Chinese and foreign contributions, sometimes wildly. Almost bling for the time. The objects are mainly 19th and early 20th centuries.
The interest of this exhibition is indirectly sociological and geographical. Long before the advent of the British Empire, Chinese merchants have established offices in South-East in the 15th century, making the import-export. particularly in Singapore but also including ailleurs.Des ships filled with Chinese dishes for example, have foundered in various seas, and that it has found centuries later.
the 19th century, the Chinese are of course themselves "exported" as agricultural labor, craft, industrial or infrastructure, before moving on to more remunerative activities.
It is found in most Asian countries Sud'Est, who sometimes, depending on the country-sounding names adopted locally, to become more "acceptable" as a minority market.
Singapore is predominantly populated by Chinese and wants a little Switzerland of the area without mountains or the cows though.
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