Comrade Ambassador
Whitlam's Beijing Envoy
$64.38
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2015
Summary
Comrade Ambassador reveals how Australia, from the 1960s, decided to engage with Asia and change for all time how we saw our role in the world.
Modern Australia was in part defined by its early embrace of China—a turning from the White Australia Policy of the 1950s to the country’s acceptance of Asian immigration and engagement with regional neighbours. It saw the far-sighted establishment of an embassy in Beijing in the 1970s by Gough Whitlam, headed by Stephen FitzGerald. Here, Fitz…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522868685 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522868681 |
| Author: | Stephen FitzGerald |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 152mm x 231mm |
Stephen FitzGerald
Stephen FitzGerald began his career as a diplomat, became an academic, was China adviser to Gough Whitlam, and from 1973 to 1976 was Australia’s first ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. In 1980 he established the first private consultancy for Australian business and government in China. He is currently a board member of the independent public policy initiative, China Matters, and an honorary fellow at the China Studies Centre at Sydney University.
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