List of ambassadors of China to the United States explained

Post:Ambassador of China to the United States
Native Name:Chinese: 中国驻美国大使
Insignia:National Emblem of the People's Republic of China (2).svg
Insigniasize:100px
Insigniacaption:National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Department:Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Embassy of China, Washington, D.C.
Incumbent:Xie Feng
Incumbentsince:May 23, 2023
Appointer:The President
Inaugural:Chen Lanbin
Website:Chinese Embassy – Washington, D.C.
Appointer Qualified:pursuant to a National People's Congress Standing Committee decision

The Chinese Ambassador to the United States is the official representative from the People's Republic of China to the United States. The current ambassador is Xie Feng. The official full title of the office is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America.

List of representatives

This is a list of diplomatic representatives from China to the United States. It includes envoys of the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China (ROC) from 1875 to 1978, and those of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1973.

Official Full TitleDuration
Imperial Envoy of the Great Qing Country Sent to the United States of America1875–1912
Envoy of the Republic of China in the United States of America1912–1935
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of China to the United States of America1928–1978
Director of the Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America1973–1979
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America1979–Incumbent

Qing dynasty

Name (Alternate name) Chinese name Took office Left office Source
Chen Lanbin陳蘭彬11 December 187524 June 1881[1]
Zheng Zaoru鄭藻如24 June 188126 July 1885
Zhang Yinheng張蔭桓27 July 188528 September 1889
Cuī Guóyīn (Tsui Kwo Yin)崔國因31 March 18892 September 1893[2]
Yáng Rú (Yang Yü)楊儒189323 November 1896[3]
Wu Tingfang (Ng Choy)伍廷芳23 November 189612 July 1902[4]
Liang Cheng (Liang Chentung)梁誠19 July 19023 July 1907[5]
Wu Tingfang (Ng Choy)伍廷芳December 190712 August 1909
Zhang Yintang (Chang Yin Tang)張蔭棠12 August 190925 October 1911
Shī Zhàojī (Alfred Sao-ke Sze)施肇基25 October 19111912[6]

Beiyang government

Name (Alternative name) Chinese name Took office Left office Source
Zhang Yintang (Chang Yin Tang)張蔭棠191221 June 1912
Xia Xiefu (Kai Fu Shah)劉式訓19131915
Gù Wéijūn (Wellington Koo)顧維鈞25 October 191529 September 1920[7]
Shī Zhàojī (Alfred Sao-ke Sze)施肇基19201928

Nationalist government

Name (Alternative name) Chinese name Took office Left office Source
Wu Chaoshu (Wu Ch'ao-shu)伍朝樞19281931[8]
Yan Huiqing (Weiching Williams Yen)顏惠慶19311933[9]
Shī Zhàojī (Alfred Sao-ke Sze)施肇基19331936[10]
Wang Zhengting (Chengting Thomas Wang)王正廷19361938[11]
Hú Shì (Hu Shih)胡適29 October 19381 September 1942[12]
Wèi Dàomíng (Wei Tao-ming)魏道明19421946
Gù Wéijūn (Wellington Koo)顧維鈞27 June 194621 March 1956
Dong Xianguang (Hollington Tong)董顯光19561958[13]
Yè Gōngchāo (George Yeh)葉公超July or August 1958November 1961[14] [15]
Jiǎng Tíngfú (Tsiang Tingfu)蔣廷黻19611965[16]
Zhou Shukai (Chow Shu-kai)周書楷19651971
Shěn Jiànhóng (James Shen)沈劍虹9 April 197131 December 1978[17]

For representatives after 1979, see the list of representatives of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States.

Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China

The official full title of the post was the Director of the Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America .[18]

No.Name Chinese name Took office Left office Source
1Huang Zhen黄镇30 May 197318 November 1977[19]
2Chai Zemin柴泽民9 August 197823 February 1979

People's Republic of China

The official full title of the post is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America .

No.Name Chinese name Took office Left office AppointerSource
1Chai Zemin柴泽民23 February 197927 December 1982N/A
2Zhang Wenjin章文晋4 March 198310 April 1985
3Han Xu韩叙3 May 198518 August 1989Li Xiannian
4Zhu Qizhen朱启祯20 October 198930 March 1993Yang Shangkun
5Li Daoyu李道豫8 April 1993February 1998Jiang Zemin
6Li Zhaoxing李肇星11 March 199830 January 2001
7Yang Jiechi杨洁篪18 February 20016 March 2005
8Zhou Wenzhong周文重3 April 20051 March 2010 Hu Jintao
9Zhang Yesui张业遂14 March 201024 February 2013
10Cui Tiankai崔天凯2 April 201323 June 2021Xi Jinping
11Qin Gang秦刚28 July 20215 January 2023[20]
12Xie Feng谢锋23 May 2023Present[21]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Spirit of China's first US ambassador lives on. www.chinadaily.com.cn. 2020-05-01.
  2. Book: The European diary of Hsieh Fucheng: Envoy Extraordinary of Imperial China . 57 . Xue, Fucheng . Helen Hsieh Chien . Douglas Howland . 978-0-312-07946-8 . 1993 . Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. 梁建. 杨儒解决美国排华问题的实践与构想述论 [Yang Yü's tackling of US Anti-Chinese policy]. 西南交通大学学报(社会科学版), 2011,12(2):82-86.
  4. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/609 Wu Tingfang, America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat Stokes (1914)
  5. Web site: Liang Cheng, The "Diplomatic Hero" . Cultural China . Shanghai News and Press Bureau . November 22, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023161302/http://history.cultural-china.com/en/47History11546.html . October 23, 2012 .
  6. News: Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Ex-China Envoy, Dies. 5 January 1958. Washington Star.
  7. 10.1007/s12140-013-9201-z. Turmoil in the Taiwan Strait: Wellington Koo and ROC Foreign Policy 1953–1956. East Asia. 30. 4. 291–306. 2013. Chervin . R. H. . 153561562.
  8. News: 24 November 2017. 3 January 1934. The New York Times. Dr. C.C. Wu Dead; Chinese Diplomet. 19.
  9. News: DR. YEN SAYS JAPAN CHALLENGES WORLD; New Chinese Envoy at Washington Holds Tokyo Has Designs on Manchuria. . 1931-12-21 . The New York Times . 2018-03-09 . en-US . 0362-4331.
  10. Book: Qian, Z. . East-West Exchange and Late Modernism: Williams, Moore, Pound . University of Virginia Press . 2017 . 978-0-8139-4068-7 . 26 August 2018 . 82.
  11. Book: Howard Boorman. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. III . New York. Columbia University Press. 1970. 9780231089579 . 362-364.
  12. News: AMBASSADOR HU SHIH RECALLED BY CHINA; Wei Tao Ming, Formerly at Vichy, Will Be His Successor . 1942-09-02 . The New York Times . 2019-05-16 . en-US . 0362-4331.
  13. Web site: www.taiwanembassy.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924121230/http://www.taiwanembassy.org/us/mkc/ct.asp?xItem=185325&ctNode=2761&mp=47 . dead . 2015-09-24 . www.taiwanembassy.org . 2015-09-05 .
  14. News: CHINESE ENVOY TO QUIT; Tong Retiring Shortly -- He Will Be Replaced by Yeh . 1958-08-16 . The New York Times . 2018-07-10 . en.
  15. News: Waggoner. Walter H.. George K. C. Yeh, Taiwan Aide. 24 July 2014. New York Times. 26 November 1981.
  16. News: Events From Day to Day. 5 April 2018. Taiwan Today. 1 November 1965.
  17. News: James Shen, Taiwan's last ambassador to US, dies at 98. Associated Press. The New York Sun. 2007-07-16. 2007-08-04. 5 December 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081205030643/http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/james-shen-98-taipeis-last-us-ambassador/58577/. dead.
  18. Book: 全国人民代表大会常务委员会 . 中华人民共和国全国人民代表大会常务委员会公报 . 1966 . 中国法制出版社 . zh.
  19. Web site: Chinese Ambassadors to the United States of America . 28 September 2020 . Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America.
  20. Web site: 中國駐美大使崔天凱宣布離任 傳外交部副部長秦剛接任. liberty times net.com. 22 June 2021. June 22, 2021.
  21. Web site: Kine . Phelim . China's new ambassador to the U.S. arrives Tuesday . . May 22, 2023 . May 23, 2023.

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