Tang Jiaxuan

Tang Jiaxuan
唐家璇
State Councilor
In office 17 March 2003 – 17 March 2008 Serving with Chen Zhili, Hua Jianmin, Cao Gangchuan, Zhou Yongkang
Preceded by	Wang Zhongyu, Wu Yi, Ismail Amat
Succeeded by	Liu Yandong, Liang Guanglie, Ma Kai, Meng Jianzhu, Dai Bingguo
Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
In office 17 March 1998 – 17 March 2003
Preceded by	Qian Qichen
Succeeded by	Li Zhaoxing
Personal details
Born	17 January 1938 Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China
Nationality	Chinese
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	Fudan University Peking University
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Tang Jiaxuan (Chinese: 唐家璇; pinyin: Táng Jiāxuán) (born January 17, 1938) 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.

Publications

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 1998-2008. It was translated into English and published by Harper in 2011 as Heavy Storm & Gentle Breeze: A Memoir of China's Diplomacy.

External links

• Tang Jiaxuan biography @ China Vitae, the web's largest online database of China VIPs
• http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/58555.htm