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Tonia Eckfeld

Professor Tonia Eckfeld is an art historian and Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She has received many awards, including Research Fellow at Harvard University, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, Honorary Professor at Zhengzhou University and Distinguished Research Fellow at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an. She is internationally renowned for her fieldwork research on material cultureand archaeology, especially of Chinese imperial tombs. Tonia is author of the landmark book, Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618–907, The Politics of Paradise and numerous other scholarly works. She lectures internationally, is an expert curator on international exhibitions, and academic adviser and on-screen expert for documentary films on art, history and cultural heritage (for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, CCTV and others). Tonia lives in Melbourne where she practises tai chi, rides her Vespa and learns meditation from her cat.

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Events

Book Launch: From Convict Printers to Book Arcade

Melbourne Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Join us for the launch of From Convict Printers to Book Arcade A History of the Book in Australia, Volume I: 1788 to 1890 Edited by Wallace Kirsop, Elizabeth Webby...

See our authors at Adelaide Writers’ Week

Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden King William Street, Adelaide, South Australia

See Kim Carr, Gareth Evans, John Lyons and Richard Denniss at Adelaide Writers’ Week.

See our authors at the Manly Writers’ Festival

Darley Smith Building Corner of 1 Darley Road and The Corso, Manly, NSW

Join our authors Kim Carr, Lauren Samuelsson, Sarah Arachchi, Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang at the Manly Writers' Festival.