Ji Chaoding was a Chinese economist, communist activist, and spy.
13 Facts About Ji Chaoding
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Ji Chaoding became a member of the Communist Party of the United States and secretly joined the Chinese Communist Party.
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Ji Chaoding became a trusted adviser to the Ministry of Finance in the wartime Nationalist government but remained in China as a well-placed official in the new government of the People's Republic of China after 1949.
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Ji Chaoding became friends with Lu Xun, with whom he shared many progressive views.
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In 1916 Ji Chaoding entered Tsinghua University, a school supported by funds from the Boxer Indemnity and whose classes were taught largely in English.
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Ji Chaoding attended the Sixth Congress of the Communist International, and was one of the secretaries to Deng Zhongxia, China's delegate.
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Ji Gongquan became frustrated with Chiang Kai-shek, so Ji Chaoding, who was then in China doing research, arranged the difficult passage through South China and Hanoi as the family made their way to New York.
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Ji Chaoding had planned to go to the wartime communist capital in Yan'an, but Zhou Enlai asked him to instead accompany his family to the United States, where he could present sympathetic information while not revealing his political allegiance.
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Ji Chaoding became Secretary General of the Sino-American British Currency Stabilization Board, which took over from the Universal Trading Corporation.
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Ji Chaozhu, Ji's brother, recalled that Kung had once demanded" "Ji Chaoding, tell the truth.
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Ji Chaoding then married Luo Jingyi, another Chinese student activist who had joined the Communist Party in the United States in the 1920s.
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Ji Chaoding died suddenly in 1963 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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Ji Chaoding worked on several projects with Philip Jaffe, most prominently on the publications China Today and Amerasia, both of which presented views of China which were sympathetic to the communists.