The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign Ministry

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Overview

A riveting biography and unique historical record, The Man on Mao's Right recounts the heartfelt struggle of a man who loved two powerful nations that were at odds with each other.

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A riveting biography and unique historical record, The Man on Mao's Right recounts the heartfelt struggle of a man who loved two powerful nations that were at odds with each other.

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Born in 1929 China to a privileged family of Communist sympathizers, Chaozhu has witnessed a country transform while catapulting to its newly-emergent centers of power. Chaozhu's memoir begins during the 1937 Japanese occupation, when his father sent him and his brothers to the U.S. to help raise money for the communists and get "a first-class education," after which they would return to "help build the new China." Returning to China in 1950, after dropping out of Harvard, Chaozhu began working as an interpreter in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, before rising to become a deputy director. After Nixon's ground-breaking 1972 visit to China, Chaozhu had several postings to the U.S. and was appointed as an Ambassador to the U.K. His last position was a 1991-94 stint as under-secretary-general of the United Nations. Chaozhu paints a vivid picture of life in China, both the extreme poverty (by 1958, 30 million Chinese had starved to death) and the civil unrest generated by Mao's draconian economic measures and purges of so-called dissidents. Chaozhu describes hard times but also exciting, eye-witness to history stories featuring Kissinger's and Nixon's first meetings with Enlai. This absorbing book should make an invaluable political (and personal) primer for anyone dealing with today's China.
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Given the steamy revelations and bitter accusations in many popular memoirs on China (e.g., Li Zhisui's The Private Life of Chairman Mao or, more recently, Gao Wenqian's Zhou Enlai), it is a relief to read an account by an urbane and often witty insider who neither idolizes nor demonizes China's top leaders. Ji's childhood in a politically connected family of patriots and scholars was ruptured by the Japanese invasion in the 1930s. The family made its way to New York, where Ji discovered American generosity, political debate, and ice cream while he studied his way into Harvard. The Korean War of 1950 shocked him into returning to China, where his dedication and knowledge of foreign countries eventually took him to the top of the Foreign Ministry. Although he tells revealing anecdotes about being Mao's interpreter, the best stories concern life backstage as foreign policy was made and China regained global respect. Premier Zhou Enlai emerges as a humane but painfully tested leader of almost superhuman ability. Ji's book should attract a general audience, but even China specialists will be intrigued (if slightly tantalized when the stories break off). Highly recommended for all libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ3/1/08.]
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781400065844
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 7/15/2008
  • Pages: 384
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Ji Chaozhu was born on July 30, 1929, in the Shanxi Province of China. Throughout his decorated career, he has held posts in China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (where he was deputy director of the Department of Translation and Interpretation and deputy director of American and Oceanic Affairs). In 1982, he was appointed minister counselor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America, and has served as China’s ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Vanuatu, and the Court of St. James’s. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the under secretary-general of the United Nations. He currently resides in China with his wife.

Table of Contents

1 Our Long March 3

2 To America 13

3 Poor Little Chinese Refugee 23

4 My Movie Star Dad 32

5 Me and Mrs. Roosevelt 41

6 My Short Harvard Education 53

7 Going Home 60

8 The East Is Red 64

9 Back in the Bosom 68

10 The Atomic Death-Belt Plan 79

11 Welcome to Kansas 88

12 Two Years of Perfidy and Fleas 100

13 Foreign Devils Face Off 116

14 The Premier and I Cheat Death 132

15 The Other China 142

16 Calm Between the Storms 153

17 Contradictions at the Top 169

18 Beating a Drowning Dog 184

19 The Man on Mao's Right 195

20 Death and Birth 206

21 Our Dark Ages Begin 218

22 Our Lord of the Flies 225

23 Nothing Public Without Purpose 238

24 The Two Young Ladies 253

25 A Circle Closes, Another Opens 266

26 An Empty Seat on the Stage 279

27 China's Second Liberation 290

28 The Reagan Crisis 302

29 From Cannibals to Caviar 316

Epilogue 331

Acknowledgments 335

Index 337

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