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Comrade ambassador : Whitlam's Beijing envoy / Stephen FitzGerald.
Publication details: Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing, 2015.Description: 272 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780522868685
- Whitlam's Beijing envoy
- FitzGerald, Stephen, 1938-
- Ambassadors -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Australia -- Foreign relations -- Asia
- Australia -- Foreign relations -- China
- Asia -- Foreign relations -- Australia
- China -- Foreign relations -- Australia
- Australia -- Politics and government -- 1972-1975
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1972-1975
- Australian
- 327.9405 23
- DU117.2.F58 A3 2015
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 327.94 FIT | Available | 059741 |
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Asian neighbours. It saw the far-sighted establishment of an embassy in Beijing in the 1970s by Gough Whitlam. Stephen FitzGerald's own story is interwoven with the wider one of this dramatic change in Australia's history, as diplomat, China scholar, adviser to Gough Whitlam, first ambassador to China under prime ministers Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser. Comrade Ambassador also highlights the challenge Australia faces in managing itself into an Asian future.
