Ping-pong diplomacy : Ivor Montagu and the astonishing story behind the game that changed the world
Griffin, Nicholas, 1971-2015
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It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the man who helped make it happen was a British aristocrat, Ivor Montagu, a Soviet spy who dined with Stalin. Even more remarkably, the means to this rapprochement was table tennis, a sport loved by both Chairman Mao and Montagu. Here, Nicholas Griffin weaves a compelling story to reveal the background to the famous occasion in 1971, when the USA, led by a 19-year-old hippie Glenn Cowan, took on the Chinese table tennis team, led by world champion Zhuang Zedong, who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, in front of 18,000 fans in Beijing.
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London : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Collation:
352 pages.
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Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780857207364 (pbk)0857207369 (pbk)
Dewey class:
327.73
LC class:
E183.8
Language:
English
Subject:
Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, 1904-1984Table tennis -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryTable tennis -- China -- History -- 20th centuryUnited States -- Foreign relations -- ChinaChina -- Foreign relations -- United StatesUnited States -- Foreign relations -- 1969-1974China -- Foreign relations -- 1949-1976Politics and Government
BRN:
3572877
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