Ancestral Home of Tun Tan Siew Sin by Chin Kon Yit & Chen Voon Fee - 2015
by Chin Kon Yit & Chen Voon Fee
Ancestral Home of Tun Tan Siew Sin
by Chin Kon Yit & Chen Voon Fee
- New
- Hardcover
- first
Kuala Lumpur: Zintan Sdn Bhd, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New. A book devoted to the Melaka home of two major figures of the country's Baba (Straits Chinese) community Tan Cheng Lock and his son Tan Siew Sin. The father founded the Malaysian Chinese Association while his son led the party after independence and was a long serving Finance Minister. However the book is principally about the architecture and history of the house. Chin Kon Yit was an authority on Malaysian historic architecture while Chen Voon Fee is a noted water colour artist. Both have collaborated on a range of best selling books on buildings throughout Malaysia with Chin providing the informed text complimenting Chen's evocative paintings, as is the case in this book. 116 pages. For further details, please see the scanned contents page. 1.2kg Post free within Malaysia but will incur additional postage charges when posted elsewhere.
- Bookseller The Penang Bookshelf (MY)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition New New
- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- ISBN 10 9671320805
- ISBN 13 9789671320808
- Publisher Zintan Sdn Bhd
- Place of Publication Kuala Lumpur
- Date Published 2015
- Keywords Malaysia - Melaka - Malacca - Straits Chinese - Baba - Nyonya - Architecture