Adrian Wong and Clementine Reid Wong: Chinoiserie (Chinesey Things)
Picture the Orient.
Except Americanized. And even or rather Chineseified.
Through the eyes of a dutiful father as hand drawn by his proud daughter, too.
Not the mythologized place that Marco Polo traveled to so long ago but way further West instead of East. Where you can see a gold mountain made of blue and white porcelain surrounded by plush yellow and rose deep shag flying carpets. With lots and lots of char siu bao flora and har gow fauna loosely floating as if intertwining in air along amber waves of grain. Or Mickey D arched patterns on parade marching along borders on a lost horizon.
All to reference an English term itself borrowed straight from French, based on their word for "Chinese" to mimic and reinterpret its style which for Adrian Wong and Clementine Reid Wong then also speaks to what constitutes the authentic as real versus fake.
Just to ask who and what is Chinese (American)?