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'''Chi Cha'o-ting''' (1903-63) (New style: Ji Chaoding) was a Chinese [[Communist]] propagandist and secret agent active in the United States, who became a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China.

'''Chi Cha'o-ting''' (1903-63) (New style: Ji Chaoding) was a Chinese [[Communist]] propagandist<ref>Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate, [http://ia360611.us.archive.org/0/items/instituteofpacif1952unit/instituteofpacif1952unit_bw.pdf Institute of Pacific Relations], S. Rpt. 2050, 82d Cong., 2d sess., Serial 11574, pursuant to S. Res. 306, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952), p. 67; Gregory Lewis, "Bridging the Guomindang-Chinese Communist Party: Ji Chaoding in New York, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Beijing, 1933-1963," [http://www.umassd.edu/cas/history/cbh/history/fall01.pdf ''Zhongguo Shangye Shi'' (''Chinese Business History''), Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 2001)] ISSN 1090-834X, p. 1</ref> and intelligence agent<ref>Lifu Chen, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=MOT_axUIWooC The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Chen Li-fu, 1900-1993]'' (Hoover Press, 1994) ISBN 0817992723, p. 181; Arthur Herman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator]'' (Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684836254, p. 126</ref> active in the United States, who became a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China.

Chi left China for the U.S. in 1924 to study at the University of Chicago. In 1926, he became the first Chinese student to join the [[Communist Party of the United States]]. The following year, he traveled to Europe to attend the [[Comintern]]'s International Congress of Oppressed Peoples, continuing to Moscow, where he worked as a translator and served as a Chinese delegate to the Sixth Comintern Conference.<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r#PPA21,M1 The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 21</ref>

Chi left China for the U.S. in 1924 to study at the University of Chicago. In 1926, he became the first Chinese student to join the [[Communist Party of the United States]]. The following year, he traveled to Europe to attend the [[Comintern]]'s International Congress of Oppressed Peoples, continuing to Moscow, where he worked as a translator and served as a Chinese delegate to the Sixth Comintern Conference.<ref>Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tfrTpBLdl50C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r#PPA21,M1 The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism]'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 21</ref>