Nicholas Thomas - Re-Orienting Australia-China Relations: 1972 to the Present

Re-orienting Australia-China Relations

1972 to the Present

Edited by

NICHOLAS THOMAS

Centre of Asian Studies The University of Hong Kong

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Re-orienting Australia-China relations : 1972 to the present

1. China - Foreign relations - Australia 2. Australia -Foreign relations - China 3. China - Foreign relations - 1949- 4. Australia - Foreign relations -1945-

I. Thomas, Nicholas, 1970-

327.51094

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Re-orienting Australia-China relations : 1972 to the present / Nicholas Thomas.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7546-3245-8

1. Australia--Foreign relations--China. 2. China--Foreign relations--Australia. 3. Australia--Foreign relations--1945- 4. China--Foreign relations--1976- I. Thomas, Nicholas, 1970-

DU113.5.C5R462004

327.9405 109045--dc22

2003064718

ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-3245-0 (hbk)

Contents

Nicholas Thomas

Colin Mackerras

J. Bruce Jacobs

William Tow

Liz Pitts

Brett Williams

Jane Orton

Stephen FitzGerald

Ann Kent

Jocelyn Chey

Rosita Holenbergh

Rachelle Allen

Dr Rachelle Allen works in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and is currently in the China Political and External Section. She spent two years working and researching in Taiwan over the period from 1994 to 2000, including as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Chinese Studies in Taipei in 2000. She taught Chinese language and Chinese-English translation at the University of Queensland while completing her PhD research into Taiwanese perceptions of Australia and intercultural sensitivity.

Professor Jocelyn Cheys career has been in the diplomatic service and in academic life. Born in England, she emigrated to Australia as a child with her family and studied at the University of Sydney. She won a British Commonwealth postgraduate scholarship to the University of Hong Kong where she obtained the degree of Master of Arts. After graduation, she remained in Hong Kong for some years and engaged in research on contemporary Chinese affairs. She obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Sydney and became a lecturer in the then Department of Oriental Studies. She moved to Canberra in 1973 when Australia first established diplomatic relations with China. For more than 20 years, she was involved in the development of Australia-China relations in the Departments of Trade and Foreign Affairs and was posted three times in China and Hong Kong, concluding with an appointment as Australian Consul-General in Hong Kong (199295). She was the first Executive Director of the Australia-China Council at the time that it was founded in 1979. From 198892 she worked outside the public service, as Director of the China Branch of the International Wool Secretariat. Since retiring from the Australian federal public service, she has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney and a consultant on relations with China and Hong Kong. Some of her relevant publications include: Hong Kong-Australia relations 199596, The Asia-Australia Survey (Macmillan Education Australia, 1997) and Lodestar China: Navigating the China Relationship, Australians in Asia monograph series 21 (Griffith University Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations, 1998).

Professor Stephen FitzGerald is Chairman of The Asia-Australia Institute, a Member of the Australian Foreign Ministers Foreign Affairs Council, and a member of the International Council of the Asia Society. He was appointed first Ambassador of Australia to the Peoples Republic of China (197376) and was concurrently Ambassador to North Korea. He was appointed Head of the Department of Far Eastern History and Head of the Contemporary China Centre at the Australian National University in 1976, and held these positions as Professorial Fellow until 1978. He has served on numerous advisory councils and was honoured to receive the Sir Edward Weary Dunlop Asia Medal and an Australia-China Council Award. He has published several books on China, the most recent of which is, Is Australia an Asian Country?

Rosita Holenbergh is Director of the China Education Centre at the University of Sydneys Faculty of Education. She is currently researching China-Australia education exchanges. The China Education Centre (established in 1972) acts as a non-profit organization for the development of educational, cultural and professional links between Australia and China.

Professor J. Bruce Jacobs is Professor of Asian Languages and Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. His research concentrations are Chinese politics, Central-local government relations, Regional political and economic development and Taiwan politics and society. His publications include Local Politics in a Rural Chinese Setting and Bitter Peaches and Plums.

Dr Ann Kent is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in the Centre for International and Public Law, Faculty of Law, Australian National University. She is the author of China, the United Nations and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) and of Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 1995). She has also published numerous articles on Australias and Chinas human rights, Australias human rights diplomacy and Australia-China relations.

Professor Colin Mackerras is Foundation Professor in the School of International Business and Asian Studies at Griffith University, Brisbane. He has written widely on China and on Australia-China relations, including as author, with Edmund Fung, of From Fear to Friendship, Australias Policies Towards the Peoples Republic of China 19661982 (University of Queensland Press, 1985) and, as editor, Australia and China: Partners in Asia (Macmillan, 1996). He was elected Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia in November 1999 and, in December 1999, won an Australia-China Council Award for outstanding contributions and achievements by individuals from Australia and China in the area of culture in Australia-China relations.