Comrade Ambassador - Stephen Fitzgerald - Bog

Modern Australia was in part defined by its early embrace of China, epitomised by 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, and first ambassador to China.