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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu; Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Griffin |
ISBN: | 9780857207340 0857207342 9780857207357 0857207350 |
OCLC Number: | 861357860 |
Description: | xi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Responsibility: | by Nicholas Griffin. |
Abstract:
The extraordinary story of the British aristocrat who helped bring China and the USA together - through table tennis
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""Ping-Pong Diplomacy" belongs in the category of 'you can't make this stuff up.' It reads more like a le Carre novel than diplomatic history. But the tale it recounts actually happened, and casts a new and provocative light on the U.S. Opening to China, one of the great foreign policy breakthroughs of the 20th century."--Anne-Marie Slaughter "author of A New World Order and The Idea That Is America " Read more...
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- Montagu, Ivor Goldsmid Samuel, -- 1904-1984.
- Table tennis -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Table tennis -- China -- History -- 20th century.
- Cold War.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- China -- History -- 20th century.
- China -- Foreign relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Table tennis.
- China.
- United States.