# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ji-chaozhu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:47:12.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ji-chaozhu"
name: "Ji Chaozhu"
slug: "ji-chaozhu"
description: "Ji Chaozhu 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). Most notably, he was English interpreter for Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and then served as an Under-secretary General of the United Nations, a post from which he retired in 1996. 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."
tagline: "Chinese diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ji_Chaozhu%2C_Tianenmen_Square%2C_2005%2C_by_Foster_Winans.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-07-30"
deathDate: "2020-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.961845333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji_Chaozhu"
    title: "Ji Chaozhu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji_Chaozhu"
    title: "Ji Chaozhu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji_Chaozhu"
    title: "Ji Chaozhu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%80%E6%9C%9D%E9%93%B8"
    title: "冀朝铸"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6191288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations