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Education and Career
John Fitzgerald graduated from the University of Sydney in 1976, spent the following year in China under the Australian-Chinese student exchange program, and completed a PhD in modern Chinese history at the Australian National University in 1983. In the same year he began work in the Contemporary China Centre of the ANU followed by a year in the Legislative Research Service of the Australian Federal Parliament. He was appointed to the History Department of Melbourne University in 1985 and undertook a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. In 1992 he joined the Department of Politics at La Trobe University where he was appointed foundation professor of Asian Studies in 1995.
He currently serves on the editorial boards of The China Journal, Asian Studies Review, Twentieth Century China and on the boards of the Historical Society for 20th Century, the Australia-China Council, the Chinese Studies Association of Australia, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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Honors
Fulbright Postdoctorial award 1988
AAS Joseph Levenson 20th Century Book Prize1998
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2000
First CI Projects
(2002-2004) Fitzgerald, Lydon, Macgregor, Images of Chinese in Australia, New Zealand, China and Southeast Asia, 1850-1950, ARC (Linkage-Projects)
(2002-2004) Fitzgerald, Transnational Histories: Chinese Communities in Australia and South China, 1850-1920, ARC (Discovery)
(2000) Fitzgerald, Looking Backward: An Interpretive History of Twentieth Century China, ARC (Discovery)
(2004) Fitzgerald, Zhang, From Empire to Republic, ARC (Linkage-International)
(2000-2002) Fitzgerald, Collaborative Research, Translation and Database Project on Chinese Community History, ARC (Linkage-International)
(2000) Fitzgerald, Australian Chinese Newspaper Web-based Index Project, ARC (Linkage-Infrastructure)
(2000) Fitzgerald, Macgregor, Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Project, National Council for the Centenary of Federation (History & Education)
(2001-2002, 2004) Fitzgerald, Graduate Research Scholarship on Australian-Chinese Community History, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Taiwan)
(2000) Fitzgerald, Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Project, LTU (Inter-campus research incentive)
(2000) Fitzgerald, Transnational Linkages between Chinese Communities in Australia and South China, 1850-1920, ARC (ARC Small Grants)
Second or Subsequent CI Projects
(2002, 2004) Hirst, Fitzgerald, Argus Online: Australian Newspaper Digital Index, ARC (Linkage-Infrastructure)
(2003) Obenchain, Fitzgerald, Network Asia Seed-Funding Application, ARC (Strategic Initiative)
(2003) McMahon, Fitzgerald, China’s Asia Pacific Century Seed-Funding Application, ARC (Strategic Initiative)
(2000-2002) Milner, Fitzgerald, Asian Accounts of Australia, ARC (Strategic Partnerships)
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Publications
Books
Fitzgerald, J. (2007) Big White Lie: Chinese Australians and White Australia, Sydney, UNSW press, xiv + 298 pp.
Fitzgerald, J., Jeffrey, R. and Morris-Suzuki, T. (2002) Maximizing Australia’s Asia Knowledge: Repositioning and Renewal of a National Asset, Melbourne, Asian Studies Association of Australia, xxii + 82pp.
So, Billy K.L., Fitzgerald, John, Jianli, Huang and Chin, James, K. (eds) (2003) Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wang Gungwu, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, ix + 460 pp.
Fitzgerald, John (ed.) (2002) Rethinking China’s Provinces, London and New York, Routledge, 290pp.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
Fitzgerald, J. (2006) “Transnational Networks and National Identities in the Australian Commonwealth: The Chinese-Australasian Kuomintang 1923-1937,” Australian Historical Studies, vol.37, no.127, April, pp.95-116.
Fitzgerald, J. (2006) “Revolution and Respectability: Chinese Masons in Australian History.” In Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake (eds) Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, Canberra: Australian National University E-Press, pp.89-110.
Fitzgerald, J. (2006) “The Dignity of Nations.” In John Fitzgerald and Chien Yung-Xiang (eds) The Dignity of Nations: Honour, Equality and Competition in East Asian Nationalism, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp.1-22.
Fitzgerald, J. (2006) “Nationalism, Democracy and Dignity in 20th Century China.” In John Fitzgerald and Chien Yung-Xiang (eds) The Dignity of Nations: Honour, Equality and Competition in East Asian Nationalism, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp.93-114.
Fitzgerald, J. (2004) “Advance Australia Fairly: Chinese Voices at Federation.” In Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor (eds) After the Rush, Melbourne: Otherland Special edition, pp.59-74.
Fitzgerald, J. (2004) “Liang Qichao – Die Reise eines chinesischen Intellektuellen nach Australien.” In Dietmar Rothermund and Susanne eigelin-Schwiedrzik (eds) Der Indische Ozean, Vienna: Ossterreichische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit, pp.165-181. Revised and translated edition of “The Slave Who Would be Equal” (2003) below.
Fitzgerald, J. (2004) “Who Cares What They Think? John Winston Howard, William Morris Hughes and the Pragmatic Vision of Australian National Sovereignty.” In Alison Broinowski (ed.) Double Vision: Asian Accounts of Australia, Canberra: Pandanus Books, pp.15-40.
Fitzgerald, J. (2003) “The Slave Who Would be Equal: The Significance of Liang Qichao’s Australian Writings.” In Billy K.L. So, John Fitzgerald, Huang Jianli and James K. Chin (eds) Power and Identity in the Chinese World Order: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wang Gungwu, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp.353-373.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) “ shuo: lun Zhongguo xiao ershi shiji de lixian jichu” [“We the Party”: The constitional foundations of China’s short twentieth century]. In Lu Fangshang (ed.) Yijiu ershi niandai de Zhongguo, Taipei: Zhonghua minguo shiliao yanjiu zhongxin, pp.61-86. Original publication in Chinese.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) “Conclusion.” In Terry Bodenhorn (ed.) Defining Modernity: Guomindang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920-1970, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, pp.263-276.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) “The Politics of the Civil War: Party Rule, Territorial Administration and Constitutional Government.” In Werner Draguhn and David S.G. Goodman (eds) China’s Communist Revolutions: Fifty Years of the People’s Republic of China, London and New York: Routledge, pp.50-81.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) “Introduction.” In John Fitzgerald (ed.) Rethinking China’s Provinces, London and New York: Routledge, pp.1-10.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) “The Province in History.” In John Fitzgerald (ed.) Rethinking China’s Provinces, London: Routledge, pp.11-40.
Fitzgerald, J. (2001) “Visions of Australian Federation: The View from the Chinese Press Gallery.” In Henry Chan, Ann Curthoys, and Nora Chiang (eds) The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Taipei and Canberra: IGAS, National University of Taiwan & CSCSD Australian National University, pp.102-116.
Fitzgerald, J. (2001) “Diaspora and Discourse: Transnationalism and the Subject of Modern History.” In Manying Ip. (ed.) Re-Examing Chinese Transnationalism in Australia-New Zealand, Canberra: ANU Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, pp.13-24.
Other Articles and Chapters
Fitzgerald, J. (2007) Australia-China Relations 1976: Looking Forward. RG Neale Lecture Series, The National Archives of Australia and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, 42 pp.
Fitzgerald, J. (2005) “Legend or History? The Australian Yee Hing and the Chinese Revolution,” Studies on Republican China, No.8, pp.87-111.
Fitzgerald, J. (2004) “The ‘Australian’ in Chinese-Australians of the White Australia Era: A Study of the Australian Kuomintang in the 1920s and 1930s.” In Liu Ludi, Chen Hong and Hou Minyue (eds) Cultural Pluralism and Civil Society in the Asia Pacific Region in the Era of Globalisation, Shanghai: Shanghai shiji chuban jituan, pp.55-99.
Fitzgerald, J. (2003) “Tuhao lieshen yu zhonghua minguo: Guangdong sheng liexi” [Local bullies in the Chinese Republic: The case of Guangdong]. In Niu Daoyong (ed.) Ershi shiji de zhongguo [Twentieth century China], Nanchang: Jiangxi renmin chuban she, pp.314-342. Original publication in Chinese.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) Advance Australia Fairly: Chinese Voices at Federation. Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture, Melbourne: University of Melbourne History Occasional Papers, 20pp.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) “The Bigger Picture: Learning About Asia in Australia.” In Betty Schlesinger (ed.) Engaging Schools in Asia, Sydney: Association of Independent Schools, pp.1-15. Published keynote address.
Fitzgerald, J. (2001) “Only Human After All: Dignity, Equality, and the Humane International Society.” In Janet McCalman (ed.) The Humane Society (Canberra: Academy of the Humanities, pp.45-58.
Fitzgerald, J. (2001) “Another Country,” Meanjin, Vol.60, No.4, pp.59-71.
Reports and Monographs
Fitzgerald, J. (2003) 'Provinzen' [Provinces], in Brunhild Staiger et al. (eds) Das Grosse China-Lexicon [China Handbook], Hamburg, Instituts für Asienkunde, pp.292-4.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) Advance Australia Fairly: Chinese Voices at Federation. Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture, Melbourne, University of Melbourne History Occasional Papers, 20pp.
Fitzgerald, J. (2002) 'The Bigger Picture: Learning About Asia in Australia', in Betty Schlesinger (ed.) Engaging Schools in Asia, Sydney, Association of Independent Schools, 1-15. Published keynote address.
Fitzgerald, J. (2001) 'Another Country', Meanjin, Vol.60, No.4: 59-71.
Fitzgerald, J. (2000) 'International Education for the Twenty-First Century: Introducing "Asia" into Australian Education'. Report to the Conference on Internationalisation of Education and China’s Entry into the WTO, Shanghai, May.
Fitzgerald, J. (1999) Report of Committee of Review into Reference Services of the National Library of Australia, Canberra, NLA. Co-authored.
Fitzgerald, J. (1999) Report of Committee of Review into the Provision of Languages Other Than English at Monash University, Melbourne, Monash University Faculty of Arts. Co-authored.
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