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PROF ANTONIA MARY FINNANE



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/staff/finnane.html
Work: 8344 5957
Fax: 8344 7894
Room: 310W
Level: 03
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Sydney
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal University of Melbourne The Woodward Medal in Humanities and Social Sciences 20-Dec-2007
Prize Association for Asian Studies (USA) 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 06-Apr-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Fashionable times: an inquiry into the history of China's modernity Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Consumption in Late Imperial China: an Early Modern Phenomenon? Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Books

  • Changing Clothes in China - Fashion, History, Nation
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Hurst & Co(London)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Teaching and Writing Asian Histories, 1958-2004
    Year: 2006
    Book: Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Review of Bringing the world home: appropriating the West in late Qing and early Republican China by Theodore Huters (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press 2005)


    Year: 2006
    Journal: The China Journal
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 183-184
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  • Review of Suzhou: where the goods of all the provinces converge by Michael Marmé (Stanford University Press: 2005)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 546-552
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • China on the Catwalk: Between Economic Success and Nationalist Anxiety
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The China Quarterly
    Volume: 183
    Issue: September 2005
    Page numbers: 587-608
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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  • In Search of the Jiang Qing Dress: Some Prelimenary Findings
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Fashion Theory
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-20
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  • Review of Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930 by Qin Shao (Stanford University Press: 2004)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Historical Review
    Volume: 110
    Page numbers: 114-115
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  • Review of Selling Happiness: calendar posters and visual culture in early-twentieth-century Shanghai  by Ellen Johnston Laing(Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The China Quarterly
    Volume: 183
    Page numbers: 721-722
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Harvard University Press(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Langxian's 'Siege of Yangzhou': A Post-Ming Reading
    Year: 2003
    Book: Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order
    Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
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Journal Articles

  • Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. By Judith Farquhar
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Asian Studies
    Volume: 62
    Page numbers: 928-930
    Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
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  • Yangzhou's 'Modernity': Fashion and Consumption in the Early Nineteenth-Century World
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Positions East Asia Cultures Critique
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 397-427
    Publisher: Duke University Press(Durham)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Yu Feng and the 1950s Dress Reform Campaign: Global Hegemony and Local Agency in the Art of Fashion
    Year: 2003
    Event name: International Symposium on Women, Nation and Society in Modern China (1600-1950)
    Conference Publication: Wu sheng zhi sheng: jindai Zhongguo funü yu wenhua, 1650-1950 (Silent Voices: women and modern Chines culture, 1650-1950)
    Page numbers: 235-268
    Publisher: Academia Sinica(Taipei)
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