Hugh Alexander Dunn

Hugh Alexander Dunn (20 August 1923, in Rockhampton, Queensland – 5 November 2005, in Brisbane) was an Australian diplomat mostly known as Australian ambassador in Taiwan (1969–1972) and China (1980–1984) and the promoter of Australia's relations with China.^[1]

Biography

After studying at the Brisbane Grammar School, he served in the army in New Guinea and the Philippines during the Second World War. After the war he returned to Australia and studied at the University of Queensland. Later he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University.^[2] There he studied classical Chinese language, history and philosophy.

In a public service career of over 30 years, Hugh Alexander Dunn served in Japan, South Korea, the United States, India and South Vietnam, and was Australian Ambassador to Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Seychelles (1978-1980), Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Peru (1973-1976), and Taiwan (1969-1972).

After leaving the public service in 1985, Hugh Alexander Dunn became the Chairman of the Brisbane China Committee, in this capacity actively furthering Australia's relationship with China. He was also a Visiting professor in the school of modern Asian studies at Griffith University and adjunct professor at the department of history at the University of Queensland, and he wrote extensively on Sino-Australian relations and the teaching of the Chinese language.

External links

• McDonald, Tim (7 December 2005). "Scholar spy shined light on China". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Media). Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. 
• Hugh Dunn interviewed by Michael Wilson for the Australian diplomacy 1950-1990 oral history project, 27 August 1993 

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