Ji Chaozhu

Ji Chaozhu
冀朝铸
Ji Chaozhu at Tiananmen Square in 2005
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Department for Development Support and Management Services
In office 1991–1996
Secretary-General	Javier Pérez de Cuéllar Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Ambassador of China to the United Kingdom
In office August 1987 – March 1991
Preceded by	Hu Dingyi
Succeeded by	Ma Yuzhen
Ambassador of China to Fiji with accreditation as Ambassador to Kiribati & Vanuatu
In office September 1985 – May 1987
Preceded by	Shen Zhiwei
Succeeded by	Xu Mingyuan
Personal details
Born	(1929-07-30)July 30, 1929 Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
Died	April 29, 2020(2020-04-29) (aged 90) Beijing, China
Relations	Ji Gongquan (father) Ji Chaoding (elder brother) Chao-Li Chi (elder brother)
Occupation	Diplomat, author
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	冀朝鑄
Simplified Chinese	冀朝铸
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jì Cháozhù

Ji Chaozhu (July 30, 1929 – April 29, 2020) was a Chinese English language diplomatic interpreter and diplomat who held diverse positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (PRC). ^[1] Most notably, he was English interpreter for Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (United Kingdom), and then served as an Under-secretary General of the United Nations, a post from which he retired in 1996.^[2] He was one of the principle interpreters in the talks leading up to and during President Richard M. Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China.

His memoir, The Man on Mao's Right,^[3] was published in July 2008, by Random House.