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".