02718oam 2200529z 450 991097067380332120240509002014.09780522868692052286869X(CKB)4100000007758691(MiAaPQ)EBC5683194(MiAaPQ)EBC31895063(Au-PeEL)EBL31895063(OCoLC)1493615804(Perlego)1881556(EXLCZ)99410000000775869120190317d2015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierComrade ambassador Whitlam's Beijing envoy /Stephen FitzGerald1st ed.Melbourne:Melbourne University Press Digital,2015.1 online resource (209 pages)Includes index.9780522868685 0522868681 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; IndexModern 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. AmbassadorsAustraliaBiographyAustraliaForeign relationsAsiaAsiaForeign relationsAustraliaAustraliaForeign relationsChinaChinaForeign relationsAustraliaAustraliaPolitics and government1945-Ambassadors327.9405FitzGerald Stephen1938-647387MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970673803321Comrade ambassador4322815UNINA