{"id":260,"date":"2012-02-18T03:11:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T08:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2012-10-01T21:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:09:09","slug":"chinas-stories-past-ji-chaozhu-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"China’s Stories Past: Ji Chaozhu Remembers."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tales Of [Comparatively] Ancient China \u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Inspired by the current American tour of incipient Chinese leader\u00c2\u00a0Xi Jinping, the \u00c2\u00a0New York Times looks back<\/a> to the start of the current era in US\/China relations, \u00c2\u00a0Nixon and Kissinger’s 70s visits with \u00c2\u00a0Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.<\/p>\n

Ji Chaozhu was there for most of these events, a lead translator for the Chinese side and later diplomat.<\/p>\n

Ji was brought up in New York during the 40s, and his family’s doings in America figured in the Owen Lattimore story. \u00c2\u00a0Ji’s father edited a Chinese language newspaper in New York, and one McCarthy charge against Lattimore was defending the senior Ji against Communist allegations [He was, but that’s for another day].<\/p>\n

Older brother\u00c2\u00a0Ji Chaoding was a Columbia economics PhD who worked for Chiang Kai Shek’s government in New York and Chungking in the forties, and joined China’s delegation to the founding conference of the World Bank\/International Monetary Fund. \u00c2\u00a0One perjury charge growing out of Lattimore’s McCarran Committee testimony was about whether Lattimore knew or should have known Ji\u00c2\u00a0Chaoding was a Communist.<\/p>\n

Ji was, and by several<\/a> accounts<\/a> headed<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 the American Communist Party’s China Bureau which smuggled funds and supplies to China. While employed by Chiang Kai Shek.<\/p>\n

Ji Chaozhu’s memoir isn’t exactly hard hitting, mostly being a chronicle of meetings and translation, sometimes for the Greats.<\/p>\n

The best part is his discription of his father’s \u00c2\u00a0role in the film “30 Seconds Over Tokyo,<\/a>” playing a kindly Chinese doctor patching up crash-landed veterans of the Doolittle Raid. \u00c2\u00a0The film was written by future Hollywood Ten-er Dalton Trumbo<\/a>, and presents China’s anti-Japanese resistance as an incredibly bourgeois affair, with resistance leaders in suits and ties. \u00c2\u00a0Plucky resistance children bring tears and throat lumps to the downed fliers with a Chinese version of “The Star Spangled Banner.”<\/p>\n

Chi Senior Rolls Up His Sleeves To Repair Van Johnson \u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tales Of [Comparatively] Ancient China \u00c2\u00a0 Inspired by the current American tour of incipient Chinese leader\u00c2\u00a0Xi Jinping, the \u00c2\u00a0New York Times looks back to the start of the current era in US\/China relations, \u00c2\u00a0Nixon and Kissinger’s 70s visits with \u00c2\u00a0Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. Ji Chaozhu was there for most of these events, a lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8,9,7,3,27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-history","category-china","category-communism","category-joseph-mccarthy","category-owen-lattimore","category-pat-mccarran","category-red-scare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}