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Ping Pong Diplomacy - Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World (Paperback, Export)
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Ping Pong Diplomacy - Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World (Paperback, Export)
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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 knew Stalin and dined with Trotsky. Even more
remarkably, the means to this rapprochement was table tennis, a
sport loved by both Chairman Mao and Montagu. For years, Montagu
had lived a dual life, working to spread communism and also table
tennis around the world. Surprisingly, the two strands of his
career would come together in an event of global significance.
Nicholas Griffin weaves a compelling story to reveal the background
to the famous occasion in 1971, when the USA's Glenn Cowan, a
19-year-old hippie, befriended China's world champion Zhuang
Zedong, who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Within
days, the Americans would be playing the Chinese in front of 18,000
fans in Beijing, with the whole world watching. It was the
beginning of a thaw in Sino-US relations that forced the Soviets
into a crippling arms race that acted as a catalyst to pressuring
them into errors that would draw the Cold War to an end. Sometimes
sport truly can have the biggest consequences.
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