Asian material culture / edited by Marianne Hulsbosch (senior editor), Elizabeth Bedford and Martha Chaiklin (co-editors) - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2009 - 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - ICAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 4 . - ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 4 .

Moon cakes and the Chinese mid-autumn festival : a matter of habitus / Elizabeth Bedford -- Up in the hair : strands of meaning in women's ornamental hair accessories in early modern Japan / Martha Chaiklin -- Nonya beadwork and contemporary Peranakan Chinese culture in Singapore and malaysia / Hwei-Fe'n Cheah -- Everybody was kung-fu fighting : the lion dance and Chinese national identity in the 19th and 20th centuries / Heleanor B. Feltham -- Works like a charm : cultural tourism, colour and its efficacy in Chinese Miao traditonal dress / Samantha Hauw -- Fluttering like flowers in the summer breeze : hair jewellery of Christian Moluccan women of the Dutch East indies / Marianne Hulsbosch -- Tension on the back-strap loom / Audrew Low

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Material culture--East Asia
Material culture--Asia


East Asia--Social life and customs
Asia--Social life and customs