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Antonia Finnane

Historical and Philosophical Studies
Race
culture
diaspora
History of China
Chinese cities
consumption textiles and apparel
Maoism
gender
fashion
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Antonia Finnane

 
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Primary Interest
Chinese history
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Projects

Displaying the 5 most recent projects by Antonia Finnane.

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The fate of the artisan in revolutionary China: tailors in Beijing, 1930s-1960s.

This study of tailors and garment production in mid-twentieth century Beijing explores the effects of Communism on the city's foremost handi..

2013 - 2018
Completed
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Memory and Commemoration in Asia and the West: An International Workshop

2013 - 2014
Completed
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Consumption in Late Imperial China: an Early Modern Phenomenon?

China's present economic growth and consumer activity are of immediate interest to Australia. This study of consumer activities in earlier c..

2006 - 2012
Completed
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Fashionable times: an inquiry into the history of China's modernity

Fashion, once regarded as a purely Western phenomenon and equated with thoroughly modern life, has recently made an improbable appearance in..

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Luxury's Defining Moments in Renaissance Italy and Ming China

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Project Types

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Research Grant

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Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Antonia Finnane.

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Lost in socialist transformation? Shanghai style under Mao

Antonia Finnane

Book Chapter  |  2020

Styling Shanghai is the first book dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the ..

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TEXTILES AND APPAREL IN THE MAO YEARS: UNIFORMITY, VARIETY AND THE LIMITS OF AUTARCHY

Antonia Finnane, Peidong Sun

Book Chapter  |  2020

‘Engels never rode in a plane’, said Deng Xiaoping in 1978, ‘and Stalin never wore Dacron’. His point was that the Party had to lo..

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Disappearing from the picture? Female Figures in Pattern Books of the Mao Years

Antonia Finnane

Book Chapter  |  2020

This article explores a lesser known source of graphic images of male and female figures produced during the early decades of the ..

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Tailoring in China and Japan: cutting techniques and cultural transfer in the early 20th century

Antonia Finnane, Hissako Anjo

Book Chapter  |  2020

This collection of essays explores how garments reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal inclinations, religious ..

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Between Beijing and Shanghai: fashion in the Party state

Antonia Finnane

Book Chapter  |  2019

Shanghai has been hailed as the future "Paris" of world fashion. An examination of how it is faring vis-a-vis Beijing and in the ..

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Sewing Manuals in 1950s China: Socialist Narratives and Dress Patterns from New Democracy to Socialist Transformation

A Finnane

Book Chapter  |  2018

Everywhere we look, people are using fashion to communicate self and society - who they are, and where they belong. This book pres..

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Not just the Mao suit: Chinese fashion in the Mao years

A Finnane

Journal article  |  2018  |  TAASA Review

What were the sources of Chinese clothing designs in the Mao years? The usual answers would be the Sun Yatsen suit and military u..

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City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions

Antonia Finnane

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF CHINESE HISTORY

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Taiping tianguo yundong qianxi Yangzhoucheng de richang shenghuo 太平天国运动前夕扬州城的日常生活 (Daily life in Yangzhou on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion)

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Book Chapter  |  2017

How should the history of daily life be approached? In Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, Jacques Gernet grapp..

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Furnishing the home in Qing Yangzhou: a Case for Rethinking "Consumer Restraint"

A Finnane

Book Chapter  |  2017

Debates born of the flourishing field of consumption studies in the West for the most part await developed responses from China. C..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Expanding Knowledge
History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
Cultural Studies
Sociology
Anthropology
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Economic Theory
Gender Studies

News

Displaying the 4 most recent news articles by Antonia Finnane.

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Hidden women of history: Hsieh Hsüeh-hung, communist champion of Taiwanese self-determination

Antonia Finnane

Hsieh Hsüeh-hung and her partner in life and politics Yang K'o-huang in Beijing, 1949. Wikimedia CommonsIn this series, we look at unde..

February 27, 2019
conversation Article
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Hidden women of history: Hop Lin Jong, a Chinese immigrant in the early days of White Australia

Antonia Finnane

The family of Hop Lin Jong (who is pictured on the far left) at the wedding of her daughter, Ruby (third from right) in 1924. Ruby was murde..

January 3, 2019
conversation Article
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'Not your prom dress': why a Chinese dress set off a cultural debate about identity and history

Antonia Finnane

Women modelling qipao. Shutterstock.comYet again a dress has sparked a furious debate over cultural appropriation in the US, this time afte..

May 6, 2018
conversation Article
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The Red Detachment of Women marches forward – but to where?

Antonia Finnane

The Red Detachment of Women was one of just eight model theatrical pieces approved for performance during the Cultural Revolution. Mark Gamb..

February 16, 2017
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2007

The Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Melbourne
2006

The Joseph Levenson Book Award for a work on pre-1900 China, awarded for Speaking of Yangzhou, A Chinese City, 1550 - 1850, Harvard University Asia Ce

Association for Asian Studies (USA)
2008

FAHA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Casual

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Honorary

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Fellow

Australian Academy of Humanities

Education

Bachelor of Arts

University of Sydney

Doctor of Philosophy

The Australian National University

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