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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 9789979, member: 360&quot;]Hah!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah I&#039;m not surprised. Most people haven&#039;t, either. Heck, it wasn&#039;t a term even in common usage until after WWII.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Peranakan, or full-term - &quot;Peranakan Cina&quot; (&quot;Per-ahn-akan Chee-Nah&quot;), literally the &quot;Local-Born Chinese&quot;, are the descendants of Chinese merchants and sailors who migrated to Southeast Asia from Southern China between the late 1400s/early 1500s, through to the 18th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>They married local Malay and Indonesian women, and settled in Singapore, the Indonesian Islands, and the Malay Peninsula.</p><p><br /></p><p>Their children, grandchildren, and all their descendants from then on, became known as the &quot;Peranakan Cina&quot;, or historically, the &quot;Straits-Chinese&quot;, or &quot;Straits-Born Chinese&quot;, since they lived in and around the Straits of Malacca, Strait of Johore, Singapore Strait, Strait of Sunda, etc, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of Peranakan today will identify as either Peranakan OR Straits/Straits-Born Chinese, and will use the terms interchangeably.</p><p><br /></p><p>Historically, they had about half a dozen different monikers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peranakan / Peranakan Cina.</p><p>Baba-Nyonya.</p><p>Straits/Straits-Born Chinese.</p><p>Royal Chinese.</p><p>King&#039;s Chinese.</p><p>British-Chinese.</p><p><br /></p><p>These last three, were largely because most of the Peranakan lived in the &quot;Straits Settlements&quot;, which were part of the British Empire. They saw themselves as British colonial subjects and citizens, and conducted and carried themselves accordingly. </p><p><br /></p><p>My family on my father&#039;s side, are Peranakan Cina from Indonesia, Malacca and Singapore, going back centuries. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a few images from my own collection. I have more stuff, but this is all I have in terms of easily-accessed photos at the moment... </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484933[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The B/W photograph are my Peranakan-Chinese ancestors. My paternal grandmother is 2nd row, 3rd in on the right...and my dad&#039;s sitting on the floor right in front of her <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484934[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My Peranakan silver bolster-plates (I FINALLY got around to framing these! Whatcha think, guys??)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]484935[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my Peranakan belts in various styles. Two of these (right down the bottom) are family heirlooms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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