Comrade ambassador : Whitlam's Beijing envoy / Stephen FitzGerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

FitzGerald, Stephen, 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambassadors--Australia--Biography.

Ambassadors.

Australia--Foreign relations--Asia.

Australia.

Asia--Foreign relations--Australia.

Asia.

Australia--Foreign relations--China.

China--Foreign relations--Australia.

China.

Australia--Politics and government--1945-.

FitzGerald, Stephen, 1938-.

FitzGerald, Stephen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press Digital, 2015.

Summary:

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, FitzGerald's story as diplomat, China scholar, adviser to Gough Whitlam, first ambassador to China under prime ministers Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, is interwoven with the wider one of this dramatic moment in Australia's history. Comrade Ambassador also highlights the challenge Australia faces in managing itself into an Asian future.

Contents:

Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 An Australian Enlightenment; 2 External Affairs, Cultural Cringe; 3 China-watcher; 4 Red Guards; 5 Asianists; 6 Whitlam and Zhou Enlai; 7 Election 1972; 8 An Australian in China; 9 North Korea; 10 Introducing Malcolm Fraser; 11 Chinese Earthquakes; 12 Brave New World; 13 Performing Bear; 14 Race, Asia, Immigration; 15 Tiananmen 1989; 16 East Asian Hemisphere; 17 Asia in the Time of Howard; 18 Asia-sceptics; 19 Asian Hemisphere or Anglosphere?; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780522868692

052286869X

OCLC:

1493615804