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After the fall of China to the Communists in 1949, Chi became an official of the Red Chinese government in Beijing, where he died in 1963. By then, the regime he had helped bring to power had imposed "Totalization," the "Great Leap Forward" and famine, causing an estimated 26 million deaths<ref>R.J. Rummel, ''[http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM ''China's Bloody Century]'' (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991), ISBN 9780887384172</ref> The "Cultural Revolution" soon to follow would raise Mao's bodycount to "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1069136,00.html well over 70 million] deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th-century leader," according to Jung Chang, a former [http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/ommoverride/teacher_guide_wild_swans.pdf member of Mao's Red Guards].<ref>Jung Chang, Mao: The Unknown Story (London: Jonathan Cape, 2005) ISBN 0-224-07126-2</ref>. At a memorial service in London, a eulogy, written by [[Owen Lattimore]], was read, lionizing Chi as "humane to the marrow of his bones."<ref> Robert P. Newman, ''Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ISBN 0-520-07388-6, pp. 515-516</ref>

After the fall of China to the Communists in 1949, Chi became an official of the Red Chinese government in Beijing, where he died in 1963. By then, the regime he had helped bring to power had imposed "Totalization," the "Great Leap Forward" and famine, causing an estimated 26 million deaths<ref>R.J. Rummel, ''[http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM ''China's Bloody Century]'' (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991), ISBN 9780887384172</ref> The "Cultural Revolution" soon to follow would raise Mao's bodycount to "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1069136,00.html well over 70 million] deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th-century leader," according to Jung Chang, a former [http://www.harpercollins.com/harperimages/ommoverride/teacher_guide_wild_swans.pdf member of Mao's Red Guards].<ref>Jung Chang, Mao: The Unknown Story (London: Jonathan Cape, 2005) ISBN 0-224-07126-2</ref>. At a memorial service in London, a eulogy, written by [[Owen Lattimore]], was read, lionizing Chi as "humane to the marrow of his bones."<ref> Robert P. Newman, ''Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China'' (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ISBN 0-520-07388-6, pp. 515-516</ref>