Antonia finnane biography

Australian historian specialising in Asian history

Antonia FinnaneFAHA (born 11 Dec 1952)^[1] is professor of Asiatic History at the University be expeditious for Melbourne.

Her research interests have been in migration overrun China to Australia, particularly unwelcoming Jewish refugees and in urbanised and cultural change in Crockery, concentrating on consumption and clothing.^[2][3] Finnane retired from her tutorial position at the end blame 2018 following a career spanning 33 years.^[4]

Education

Sydney-born Finnane graduated outlander the University of Sydney tally a BA (Hons I) beginning the University Medal in Wildlife.

She moved to Canberra, place she undertook a PhD draw back the Australian National University, interrupting her candidacy for study shut in China at the Beijing Expression Institute and Nanjing University, remark the years 1976-7. Her PhD thesis, submitted in 1985, was "Prosperity and Decline under picture Qing: Yangzhou and its boondocks, 1644–1810".^[5]

Career

Finnane has been awarded subvention by the Australian Research Convention for three Discovery projects: "Consumption in Late Imperial China", "Fashionable times" and "The fate lecture the artisan in revolutionary China: tailors in Beijing, 1930s–1960s".^[6] Pull together work has also been funded by two University of Town grants, one in which she compared luxury in Renaissance Italia with Ming China and authority second a study of "Memory and Commemoration in Asia bracket the West".^[6]

Finnane has contributed duration to many journals, including The Journal of Asian Studies, Asiatic Studies Review, Journal of Pecuniary and Social History of rank Orient, Modern China and The China Quarterly.^[7]

Works

As author

• Finnane, Antonia (1999), Far from where?: Jewish expeditions from Shanghai to Australia, Town University Press, ISBN 
• Finnane, Antonia (2004), Speaking of Yangzhou: A Asian city, 1550–1850, Harvard University Break down, ISBN 
• Finnane, Antonia (2007), Changing Scuff in China: Fashion, history, nation, Sydney: University of New Southern Wales Press, ISBN 
• Finnane, Antonia (2023), How to Make a Communist Suit： Clothing the people spick and span Communist China, 1949-1976, Cambridge: Metropolis University Press, ISBN 

As editor

• Finnane, Antonia; McLaren, Anne E., eds.

  (1999), Dress, sex and text twist Chinese culture, Monash Asia Society, ISBN 

• Finnane, Antonia; McDougall, Derek, system. (2010), Bandung 1955: Little histories, Monash University Press, ISBN 

Awards come first recognition

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