Associate Professor Antonia Finnane
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5970 |
| Email: | a.finnane@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 537 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Research
Antonia is interested in the social history and material culture of China over the last five hundred years. She has published articles and books in urban history, with particular reference to Yangzhou; on the history of clothing and fashion in China; and on the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai. Her current research concerns consumption in late imperial China, with a particular focus on shops and shopping.
Publications
Books
- Antonia Finnane, Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, Nation, History, London: Hurst, forthcoming 2007.
- Antonia Finnane, Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550 – 1850, Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard University Asia Centre, 2004. pp. 453
Winner, 2006 Joseph Levenson Book Prize For Pre-1900 China. - Antonia Finnane, Far From Where? Jewish Journeys from Shanghai to Australia, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999.
- Antonia Finnane, Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne, 1999.
Articles and Chapters
- Antonia Finnane, “China on the Catwalk: Between Economic Success and Nationalist Anxiety,” in China Quarterly, 183 (September 2005): 587 – 608
- Antonia Finnane, “In Search of the Jiang Qing Dress: Some Preliminary Findings,” in Fashion Theory, 9, 1 (2005): 1 – 20
- Antonia Finnane, “Yangzhou’s ‘Mondernity’: Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in Positions: East Asia culture critique, 11, 2 (Fall 2003): 397 – 427
- Antonia Finnane, “Langxian’s ‘Siege of Yangzhou: A Post-Ming Reading,” in Billy K. L. So, John Fitzgerald, Huang Jianli, and James K. Chin (eds), Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wang Gungwu (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2003), 331 – 352
- Antonia Finnane, “Yu Feng and the 1950s Dress Reform Campaign: Global Hegemony and Local Agency In the Art of Fashion,” in Yu Chien Ming, (ed), Wu sheng zhi sheng: jindai Zhongguo funü yu wenhua, 1650 – 1950, [Silent voices: women and modern Chinese culture, 1650 – 1950], Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2003, Vol. II, 235 – 268
- Antonia Finnane, “Dead Daughters, Dissident Sons and Human Rights in China,” in Anne-Marie Hillsden, Martha Macintyre, Vera Mackie, and Maila Stivens (eds), Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia Pacific Perspectives, Routledge, London, 2000, 82 – 106
- Antonia Finnane, “Enlightened Observations: Analogy, Comparison and Cultural Relativism in European Descriptions of Chinese Dress,” in Michel Cartier (ed), La Chine entre amour et haine (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 1998), 143 – 86
- Antonia Finnane, “Water, Love and Labour: Aspects of a Gendered Environment,” in Liu Ts'ui jung and Mark Elvin (eds), Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1997), 657-92
- Antonia Finnane, “What Should Chinese Women Wear? A National Problem” in Modern China, 22 2 (April 1996): 99-131
- Antonia Finnane, “A Place in the Nation: Yangzhou and the Idle Talk Controversy of 1934” in Journal of Asian Studies, 53, 4 (November 1994): 1150 – 1174
- Antonia Finnane, “The Origins of Prejudice: The Malintegration of Subei in Late Imperial China” in Comparative Studies in Society and History, 35 (2) 1993, 211 – 38
Teaching
131-062 Making China Modern
131-253 China and the World, 1368-2001
131-422 Asia in Paradigms of World History