Ping-pong diplomacy
Subtitle: the secret history behind the game that changed the world
By: Nicholas Griffin
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781451642773
Subjects: Table tennis; Foreign relations
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-323) and index.