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Email

a.finnane@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Casual Academic
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Education
PhD
The Australian National University
Bachelors Degree
University of Sydney
ORCID

0000-0003-4941-4979

Prof Antonia Finnane

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies

96 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Equality, fraternity and domestic violence in the history of Chinese communism
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-century China: Redefining Female Identity through Modern Design and Lifestyle Sandy Ng. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 164 pp. €104.00 (hbk). ISBN 9789462988910
    DOI: 10.1017/s0305741024000997
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Alanna Kamp shows all over again that a focus on women can change the picture
    DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2023.2257244
  • 2023

    Media

    Entangled Histories: A group of Australian MPs in Taiwan this week would have been struck by parallels between the two countries’ First Nations people
  • 2023

    Media

    China is criminalising clothing ‘hurtful to the spirit and sentiments of the nation’ – could this mean a kimono ban?
  • 2023

    Book

    How to Make a Mao Suit
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009360005
  • 2023

    Media

    The ‘Mao suit’: how a military-style uniform changed the face of China – and clothed Australian prisoners during the Korean War
Antonia Finnane

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2008
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)
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)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Fashion and time in China's Twentieth Century
  • 2022

    Book

    Shuo Yangzhou : Ming Qing shangye zhi dou de chenfu 说扬州 : 明清商业之都的沉浮
  • 2021

    Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website

    Manchu Women's Headdress

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2013

    Research Grant

    The Fate of the Artisan in Revolutionary China: Tailors in Beijing, 1930s-1960s.
  • 2013

    Internal Research Grant

    Memory and Commemoration in Asia and the West: An International Workshop
  • 2006

    Research Grant

    Consumption in Late Imperial China: An Early Modern Phenomenon?
  • Internal Research Grant

    Luxury's Defining Moments in Renaissance Italy and Ming China
  • Research Grant

    Fashionable Times: An Inquiry Into the History of China's Modernity

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