Sources & further reading
Museum publications and institutional records, alongside later writing on dress, traditional crafts, oral history and heritage that draws on Naomi’s work.
An independent tribute to Naomi Szeto.
Early catalogue contribution: Chinese wedding customs
WorldCat · 1986 exhibition catalogue
Law Uk Folk Museum and local-history bibliography
Education University of Hong Kong
Children of the Gods: original edition
CiNii · 1990 library catalogue
Children’s Dress in China: author and contents
Bloomsbury · East Asia volume
A curator’s perspective on ordinary objects
Hong Kong Government News · 22 June 2014
The Bidford Chair’s journey to Hong Kong
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust · 11 July 2014
Museum Professionals Training Workshop
CUHK Art Museum · 2015 programme
Aberdeen Story and Naomi’s curatorial role
Tourism Commission · 2006 report of the 2005 workshop
Dress in Hong Kong in museum scholarship
Art Institute of Chicago · p. 36; note 61, p. 103
Hong Kong’s trades and industries bibliography
Hong Kong Public Libraries
The chair catalogue in Getty object research
Getty · Collection bibliography
The chair catalogue in a research collection
Rijksmuseum Research Library
Fascination and Affinity
Hong Kong Heritage Museum · Publication record, 2017
A Day in Time: 1935 Hong Kong
Hong Kong Heritage Museum · Publication record, 2019
Cheongsam: an essay republished
Cheryl Sim · UQAM doctoral thesis, 2015 · Annexe II
Sim identifies the 2009 Pepin Press volume as a republication of Naomi’s 1997 essay on fashion, culture and gender.
潮流望後鏡: a selection for the classroom
啟思教學通訊 · 2010, no. 1 · p. 23
The publisher’s selection table credits 司徒嫣然 with this Chinese-language reading.
A contemporary review of Children of the Gods
Don Cohn · Far Eastern Economic Review · 29 November 1990
The book was included in Cohn’s multi-book review “Seen and not Heard,” p. 36. The catalogue records the review.
A collaborator remembers
Claire Roberts · TAASA Review · March 2024 · pp. 12–13
Roberts recalls Naomi’s collaboration with Valery Garrett on Children of the Gods and acknowledges her expertise and support for Evolution & Revolution.
Children’s dress in later scholarship
Carrie Hertz · Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics · 2024
Hertz draws on Children’s Dress in China in discussing children’s dudou bellywraps as outerwear: p. 117, note 24.
Everyday trades in Hong Kong oral history
劉智鵬 / Lau Chi-pang · 臺灣文獻 · 2014 · pp. 57–58
Lau discusses Of Hearts & Hands as a valuable record of ordinary lives and declining traditional trades.
An illustration becomes beadwork evidence
Valerie Hector · BEADS · 2016 · p. 81
Hector uses an illustration in Dress in Hong Kong to examine the addition of glass beads to macramé in southern China.
Paper crafting and ritual knowledge
林國輝 · 紙紮工藝在香港 · Revised August 2023
This study cites Of Hearts & Hands, p. 200, on the papercrafting skills of Zhengyi Daoist priests. The reference appears in note 17.
Craft research in a heritage assessment
Hin Fat Lane, Tuen Mun · Heritage impact assessment · 2019
The assessment uses Of Hearts & Hands to explain jiggering machines used to produce pottery lids: p. 48, note 62.