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Tang Jiaxuan

Tang Jiaxuan (Chinese: 唐家璇; pinyin: Táng Jiāxuán; born January 17, 1938) is a Chinese diplomat and politician who was foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 1998–2003.


Tang Jiaxuan
.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}唐家璇
Tang in 2002
In office17 March 2003 – 17 March 2008Serving with Chen Zhili, Hua Jianmin, Cao Gangchuan, Zhou Yongkang
Wen Jiabao
In office17 March 1998 – 17 March 2003
Zhu Rongji
Qian Qichen
Li Zhaoxing
(1938-01-17) 17 January 1938Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China
Chinese Communist Party
Fudan UniversityPeking University

Tang Jiaxuan (Chinese: 唐家璇; pinyin: Táng Jiāxuán; born January 17, 1938) is a Chinese diplomat and politician who was foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 1998–2003.

After various diplomatic postings in Japan, he became Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1991, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1993 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2003. He continued to serve on the State Council until 2008.

In 2009, Tang published Jing Yu Xu Feng (Chinese: 劲雨煦风; Chinese: 勁雨煦風; pinyin: Jìng Yǔ Xù Fēng), a memoir covering ten years of Tang's experiences in China's Foreign Ministry from 1998 to 2008. It was translated into English and published by Harper in 2011 as Heavy Storm & Gentle Breeze: A Memoir of China's Diplomacy.

  • Tang Jiaxuan biography @ China Vitae, the web's largest online database of China VIPs Archived 2006-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
  • http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/58555.htm
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