Emeritus Professor John Fitzgerald AM
“So Taiwan's in trouble; how can communities help”
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John Fitzgerald is non-resident Fellow in The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, and Emeritus Professor in the School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
He served five years as China Representative of The Ford Foundation in Beijing from 2008-2013 and before that as Director of the International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies at the Australian National University and Head of the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University.
In professional service, he was elected President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2015-2017 and President of the Chinese Studies Association of Australia from 2005-2007.
He is often invited to appear on Australian television and radio, and writes opinion pieces for the Australian Financial Review and the Australian.
His public service awards include the Centenary of Federation Medal, and Member of the Order of Australia.
His research focuses on the history of nationalism, public administration, and philanthropy in China, and on the histories of the Chinese diaspora, and his public commentaries focus on China-Australia relations. His recent books include Cadre Country: How China became the Chinese Communist Party (2022) and (ed) Taking the Low Road: China’s Influence in Australian States and Territories (2022). Earlier books include Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia (2007), awarded the Ernest Scott Prize of the Australian Historical Association, and Awakening China: Politics Culture and Class in the Nationalist Revolution (1997) awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize of the U.S. Association for Asian Studies.
He has a Ph.D. from ANU and held a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney.