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Stephen FitzGerald:
a Biographical Note
Stephen FitzGerald began his professional career as a diplomat,
studied Chinese and became a career China specialist. He was China
adviser to Gough Whitlam, and Australia’s first ambassador to the
People’s Republic of China, and in 1980 established the first private
consultancy for Australians dealing with China, which he continues
to run. Since the late 1960s, he has worked for policy reform in
Australia’s relations with Asia, and for Asia Literacy for Australians.
He chaired the 1980s committee of the Asian Studies Association of
Australia on Asian Studies and Languages in Australian Education,
and the government’s Asian Studies Council, which wrote a government
strategy for the study of Asia in schools and universities. In
the same year, he chaired the government’s Committee to Advise on
Australia’s Immigration Policies, which wrote the landmark report,
Immigration: A Commitment to Australia. He was head of the ANU’s
Department of Far Eastern History and also of its Contemporary
China Centre in the 1970s. In 1990, he founded and until 2005 chaired
the UNSW’s Asia-Australia Institute, dedicated to making Australia
part of the Asian region through think-tank activities and ideasgeneration
by regional leaders meeting in informal discussion.
He has been consultant to the Queensland and Northern Territory
governments on the introduction of Asian languages to the school
curriculum, consultant to Monash, Melbourne and Griffith universities
on mainstreaming Asia in university studies, Chair of the Griffith
Asia Institute, and Research Strategy Director of the China Research
Centre of the University of Technology Sydney. He has also been
a consultant on governance-related aid in China and Southeast Asia,
for the Federal and Northern Territory governments, and the governments
of Britain, Denmark and others. He has published monographs,
reports and articles on the above topics.
费思棻简介
费思棻博士的职业生涯肇始于外
交舞台,他长期研究中国事务,
是著名的中国问题专家。在1970
年代,他是惠特拉姆的中国问
题顾问,澳大利亚派驻中华人
民共和国的首任大使。他1980年创办了有关澳中关系的咨询机构,
并执掌该机构至今。自1960年代开始,他致力于澳大利亚的亚洲关
系政策改革,以及加深澳大利亚公众对亚洲的了解。他曾在1980
年代担任澳大利亚亚洲研究语言教育协会的研究部主席,领导该机
构为政府起草了关于在教育机构进行亚洲研究的战略报告。他还出
任过澳大利亚移民政策专家组主席,领导该机构为政府提供了具有
里程碑意义的澳大利亚移民报告。他曾担任澳大利亚国立大学东亚
历史系主任和该大学的当代中国中心主任;他创建了新南威尔士大
学的亚洲与澳大利亚学院,并担任主任直至2005年。他还是昆士兰
州和北领地政府在教学中引入亚洲语言的顾问,莫纳什大学、墨尔
本大学、格里菲思大学推动亚洲研究主流化的顾问;以及格里菲思
亚洲研究院的主席,美国德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校中国研究中
心的研究战略主任,澳大利亚政府对华以及对东南亚援助事务的顾
问,并为澳大利亚联邦政府、北领地政府,以及英国、丹麦等国政
府提供咨询。他出版过与以上题目相关的大量论文、报告和文章。
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