Post by NZBC on Jan 1, 2013 9:49:19 GMT 12
The history involving Australia and China, from the late-Qing dynasty (and the time of Australia’s Gold Rush in the nineteenth century), through the Republic of China (1912-1949) and into the era of the People’s Republic of China (1949-), is covered by a wide range of books, films, articles, as well as academic and art works. This section of The China Story site will, over time, provide an archive of material relevant to the study of The Australia-China Story. As this section develops we will by necessity include more material on the Australia-US-China relationship.
December 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the normalization of relations between the Commonwealth of Australia and the People’s Republic of China. In February 2012, the Australian Centre on China in the World launched in Beijing Australia and China: A Joint Report on the Bilateral Relationship written in collaboration with The China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), a leading Beijing-based think tank. This en face bilingual report, downloadable here, contains a short overview of the history of the relationship between Australia and China (‘A Short History of the Australia-China Relationship’, quoted in full below).
www.thechinastory.org/the-australia-china-story/