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JI CHAOZHU
Ambassador to Fiji
1929
1963-65
1971-72
1973
1975-79 (?)
1979-82
1982-85
1985-87
Born in Shanxi Province
Interpreter to Zhou Enlai
Counsellor at the Chinese People's Government Liaison Office in Washington
Deputy Director of the MFA Department of International Organisatins and Conferences and Treaties and Law.
Deputy Director of the MFA American and Oceanian Affairs Ipartment
Counsellor with rank of Minister at the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
Ambassador to Fiji
Ji went to the United States as a boy and subsequently studied
at Harvard University, majoring in chemistry. He returned to
China in 1950. With his foreign connections he was a natural target during the Cultural Revolution and he disappeared from view between 1965 and 1971. He has interpreted for Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping (on his US tour of 1979) as well as for Zhou Enlai.
He has been described as "very acute and impressively well-informed,
fully alive to the subtler aspects of the American political scene, very confident, serious-minded, alert, intelligent and alive".
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