Australia-China Relations post 1949

Yi Wang is a Current Affairs Commentator for ABC Radio Australia and a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia.

'... provides new insights into the Australia-China relationship since 1949 by taking an innovative approach grounded in political science and international relations theories. It challenges the conventional wisdom about Australia's dependence on "great and powerful allies", and examines the interactions of trade and politics in Canberra's foreign policy-making process. It makes a significant contribution to the literature that has hitherto been dominated by historians and economists.' Edmund S. K. Fung, University of Western Sydney, Australia 'The chief value of anniversaries is to reflect on how we reached this point and find lessons for the way forward. This book by Yi Wang is therefore timely, as it outlines Australia’s relationship with China, beginning in 1949, and focuses on change and continuity in Australian foreign policy. It is a very convenient reference work, listing all the crucial trigger points of the bilateral relationship, and a useful historic extension of other accounts that begin only in 1971 or 1972.' The China Journal '... this book represents a very useful reference work that will inform and guide any student or scholar of Australian foreign policy.' Pacific Affairs

• Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: The central question; Chapter 2 The pre-recognition period (1949–1972); Chapter 3 The Whitlam/Fraser period (1972–1983); Chapter 4 The Hawke era (1983–1989); Chapter 5 The Hawke/Keating period (1989–1996); Chapter 6 The Howard era (1996–2007); Chapter 7 The Rudd period (2007–2010); Chapter 8 Findings and conclusions;