With “Ping Pong Diplomacy” back in the news recently, thanks to a rematch between Chinese and American table tennis players that made headlines on both sides of the Pacific, China Beat asked historian Xu Guoqi to write a short piece for us... ...full story at China Beat
from China Beat on Tue, Jul 01 2008
see also:
| 05 Nov 08 |
  |
Chinese Ping pong table tennis Part 1 »
YouTube video Well I am in China for a year now, and I've taken up Ping Pong. Talk about taking Ping Pong serious! The old guy in the back, on the left is the Master. |
| 13 Jun 08 |
 |
Rematch held to commemorate ping-pong diplomacyRematch held to commemorate ping-pong diplomacy » People's Daily Chinese and American ping-pong players held a rematch on Thursday to commemorate the ping-pong diplomacy that saw Sino-U.S. relations normalized. In the rematch held at the Nixon presidential library in Yorba Linda, near Los Angeles ... |
| 09 Jun 08 |
|
Ping pong diplomacy: Time for the rematch » Shanghai Daily IT was an unlikely diplomatic tool in the Cold War: paddles and ping pong balls and nine giddy United States table tennis players in a country Americans hadn't seen for decades. Yet the week of table tennis exhibition... |
| 07 Jan 09 |
|
"Ping pong diplomacy" celebrated as China, U.S. play ball » People's Daily They are not common diplomatic tools: several paddles, a few ping pong balls and some table tennis players from China and the United States. But the fact that nine American table tennis players were invited to Beijing for exhibition games with... |
| 07 Jan 09 |
 |
Ping-pong diplomats look back » NBC World Blog China this month is celebrating the 30th anniversary of diplomatic ties with the U.S. Relations were established after the legendary "ping pong" diplomacy that began in 1971, when the U.S. national table tennis team was invited to play in... |
| 24 Jan 07 |
|
Ping-Pong to Reverberate Around Square » china.org.cn The ping could be heard around the world again this summer. But unlike in 1971 when "Ping-Pong diplomacy" signalled the thawing of Sino-American relations, this time it will have everything to do with the game itself. |
twitter
blogs
china
thailand
japan
technology