Penang Shophouse

Site common name	Penang Shophouse
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	George Town
State	Penang
Country	Malaysia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 5.420278 Long : 100.338333

History of production	The Chinese are famous in their trading skill. They started their migration to the Melaka Straits since 19 – 20 century. These Chinese known as Strait Chinese started their shophouse which can be found in Penang, Melaka and Phuket, Thailand.
Art	The 20th century shophouse is both residence and sometimes a commercial building. A shophouse always has 2 storeys. The lower storey often has a space in front for the walkway called “Arcade” with doors and windows in front. The upper storey has a 3 wooden partition windows. These building mix both Chinese influence and Western influence differ from the government place that the British always use the Western art without Chinese influence. Some scholar calls these shophouse in 20th century as Shino-Portuguese shophouse.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	British Colonization Period
Age	19th – 20th century

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali