Comrade Ambassador

Whitlam's Beijing Envoy

Stephen FitzGerald

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
01 September 2015

Memoirs; Diplomacy; Australian Society

'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.'

Bob Carr

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.

By: Stephen FitzGerald
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9780522868685
ISBN 10: 0522868681
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 September 2015
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stephen FitzGerald began his career as a diplomat, became an academic, was China adviser to Gough Whitlam, and from 1973 to 1976 FitzGerald 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.