Antonia Finnane

Last updated

Antonia Finnane FAHA (born 11 December 1952) [1] is professor of Chinese History at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests have been in migration from China to Australia, particularly by Jewish refugees and in urban and cultural change in China, concentrating on consumption and clothing. [2] [3] Finnane retired from her teaching position at the end of 2018 following a career spanning 33 years. [4]

Contents

Education

Sydney-born Finnane graduated from the University of Sydney with a BA (Hons). She moved to Canberra, where she completed her PhD at the Australian National University. Her thesis was "Prosperity and Decline under the Qing: Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644–1810". [5]

Career

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

Finnane has contributed articles to many journals, including The Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Studies Review, Journal of Economic and Social History of the Orient, Modern China and The China Quarterly. [7]

Works

As author

As editor

Awards and recognition

Related Research Articles

Dorgon 17th-century Prince and regent of the Qing Dynasty

Dorgon, formally known as Prince Rui, was a Manchu prince and regent of the early Qing dynasty. Born in the Aisin Gioro clan as the 14th son of Nurhaci, Dorgon started his career in military campaigns against the Ming dynasty, Mongols and Koreans during the reign of his eighth brother, Hong Taiji, who succeeded their father.

Yangzhou Prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, Peoples Republic of China

Yangzhou, postal romanization Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south. Its population was 4,414,681 at the 2010 census and its urban area is home to 2,146,980 inhabitants, including three urban districts, currently in the agglomeration.

Merle Calvin Ricklefs was an American-born Australian scholar of the history and current affairs of Indonesia.

Yangzhou massacre

The Yangzhou massacre in May, 1645 in Yangzhou, China, refers to the mass killings of innocent civilians by Manchu and defected northern Chinese soldiers, commanded by the Manchu general Dodo.

Roslyn Louise "Ros" Pesman, was the first female Challis Professor of History at the University of Sydney and the first woman to be elected chair of the academic board at the university.

Alison Venetia Graham Betts is a Scottish archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the "archaeology of the lands along the Silk Roads" and the nomadic peoples of the Near East. Since 2012, she has been Professor of Silk Road Studies at the University of Sydney.

Wallace Kirsop is an eminent Australian scholar in French studies and in book trade history.

Mary Patricia Clarke is a writer, historian and former journalist who now writes about nineteenth century women in Australia. Patricia was born in Alphington, Melbourne to John L. Ryan, a teacher, and Annie T. Ryan. She was educated in Melbourne until the family moved to Sale where she went to secondary school and then at the University of Melbourne.

Joy Damousi, is an Australian historian and Professor and Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. She was Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne for most of her career, and retains a fractional appointment. She was the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Shurlee Lesley Swain, is an Australian social welfare historian, researcher and author. Since August 2017 she has been an Emeritus Professor at the Australian Catholic University (ACU).

Ann Curthoys Australian historian and academic

Ann Curthoys, is an Australian historian and academic.

Lesley Head is an Australian geographer specialising in human-environment relations.

Christina Louise Twomey, is an Australian historian and academic.

Lynette Wendy Russell, is an Australian historian, known for her work on the history of Indigenous Australians; in particular, anthropological history ; archaeology; gender and race, Indigenous oral history, and museum studies.

Dr Anne Pi-Yau Pang, Dr. 黄碧瑶 Huang Bi-yao. is author of the first published English books on the life of her great grandfather, the historical figure Chinese reformer Wong Nai Siong. As a martial artist Anne Pang has developed a system of women’s self defence. She is a noted Australian Chinese businesswoman and ran an art gallery specializing in Australian art. Her son is actor Chris Pang and her Husband is the kung fu practitioner and business entrepreneur Barry Pang.

Glenda Anna Sluga, is an Australian historian who has contributed significantly to the history of internationalism, nationalism, diplomacy, immigration, and gender, in Europe, Britain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Australia.

Margaret Joy Kartomi is an Australian ethnomusicologist who is known especially for her contributions to the study of Asian music. She is an emeritus professor of Monash University in Melbourne. She specialises in the music of Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Penelope Ann Russell, is an Australian social historian. She is Bicentennial Professor of Australian History at the University of Sydney.

Fiona Kerr Paisley is a Scottish-born Australian cultural historian at Griffith University. Her research and writing focuses on Australian Indigenous, feminist and transnational history.

Ann Margaret McGrath is the WK Hancock Chair of History at the Australian National University. She is Director of the Research Centre for Deep History and Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellow 2017-22.

References

  1. "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald (35, 874). New South Wales, Australia. 12 December 1952. p. 16. Retrieved 21 October 2020 via National Library of Australia.
  2. Finnane, Antonia. "The Red Detachment of Women marches forward – but to where?". The Conversation. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  3. Finnane, Antonia. "'Not your prom dress': why a Chinese dress set off a cultural debate about identity and history". The Conversation. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  4. "Farewelling Professor Antonia Finnane". University of Melbourne. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  5. Finnane, Antonia (1985), Prosperity and decline under the Qing: Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644–1810 , retrieved 21 October 2020
  6. 1 2 3 "Prof Antonia Finnane". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  7. "Antonia Finnane". ResearchGate. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  8. "Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies – Book awards". LibraryThing. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  9. "Fellows: Antonia Finnane". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 21 October 2020.