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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.

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Early catalogue contribution: Chinese wedding customs

WorldCat · 1986 exhibition catalogue

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Law Uk Folk Museum and local-history bibliography

Education University of Hong Kong

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Children of the Gods: original edition

CiNii · 1990 library catalogue

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Children’s Dress in China: author and contents

Bloomsbury · East Asia volume

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A curator’s perspective on ordinary objects

Hong Kong Government News · 22 June 2014

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The Bidford Chair’s journey to Hong Kong

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust · 11 July 2014

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Museum Professionals Training Workshop

CUHK Art Museum · 2015 programme

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Aberdeen Story and Naomi’s curatorial role

Tourism Commission · 2006 report of the 2005 workshop

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Dress in Hong Kong in museum scholarship

Art Institute of Chicago · p. 36; note 61, p. 103

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Hong Kong’s trades and industries bibliography

Hong Kong Public Libraries

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The chair catalogue in Getty object research

Getty · Collection bibliography

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The chair catalogue in a research collection

Rijksmuseum Research Library

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Fascination and Affinity

Hong Kong Heritage Museum · Publication record, 2017

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A Day in Time: 1935 Hong Kong

Hong Kong Heritage Museum · Publication record, 2019

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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