Antonia Finnane

Antonia Finnane FAHA (born 11 December 1952)[1] is professor of Chinese History at the University of Melbourne.[2][3] Finnane retired from her teaching position at the end of 2018 following a career spanning 33 years.Her PhD thesis, submitted in 1985, was "Prosperity and Decline under the Qing: Yangzhou and its hinterland, 1644–1810".[5] 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".
University of MelbourneUniversity of SydneyAustralian National UniversityAustralian Research CouncilThe Journal of Asian StudiesModern ChinaThe China QuarterlyJoseph Levenson Book PrizeAustralian Academy of the HumanitiesThe Sydney Morning Herald