'Antonia Finnane is Professor of Chinese History at The University of Melbourne, co-editor (with Anne McLaren) of Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture (1999), and author of three books: Far From Where? Jewish Journeys from Shanghai to Australia (1999); Speaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850 (2004); and Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation (2008). She is interested in the social history and material culture of China in the early modern to modern eras (1500-2000). She has published articles and books on 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 [...] research concerns material life and ritual change in twentieth-century China.' (Source: The Australian Academy of the Humanities website)
