Ping-pong diplomacy

Description:

Traces the story of how an aristocratic British spy circumvented more than 20 years of antagonistic foreign policy between China and the United States to further a fateful Communist agenda during the World Table Tennis Championships, revealing how players were tortured and murdered throughout the Cultural Revolution.

subjects: Table tennis,  Foreign relations,  International relations,  History,  Modern,  20th Century,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Government,  International,  General,  Diplomatic relations,  United states, foreign relations, china,  China, foreign relations, united states,  United states, foreign relations, 1961-1981

Places: United States,  China