Ping-pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world / Nicholas Griffin.
Ping-pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world / Nicholas Griffin.
Ping-pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world / Nicholas Griffin.
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Publisher
New York : Scribner, 2014.
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G 2014/4109
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The West. Not-so-humble beginnings ; Gentlemanly rebel ; Roast beef and Russia ; The dangers of derision ; Table tennis and Trotsky ; Culture and the coming war ; Suspect ; Brothers ; The end of the game? ; The Jewish question -- The East. Table tennis bandits ; The Trojan dove ; The rise of Asia ;...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Scribner, 2014.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2014.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Examines 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.
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Ping-pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world / Nicholas Griffin.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-323) and index.
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G 2014/4109
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74VKv5jdPeoX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKv5jdPeoX
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ISBN
1451642776
9781451642773
DDC
327.73051
MMS ID
991021717289702626
