Ping Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World 9781451642773

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Автор: Griffin Nicholas
Название: Ping Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World
Перевод названия: Диломатия методом пинг-понга . Секретные предпосылки истории игры, которая изменила мир
ISBN: 9781451642773
Издательство: Scribner Book Company
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1451642776
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.00 кг.
Дата издания: 07.01.2014
Язык: English
Поставляется из: США
Описание: THE SPRING OF 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a detente--achieved not by politicians but by Ping-Pong players. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment and branded it Ping-Pong Diplomacy. But for the Chinese, Ping-Pong was always political, a strategic cog in Mao Zedongs foreign policy. Nicholas Griffin proves that the organized game, from its first breath, was tied to Communism thanks to its founder, Ivor Montagu, son of a wealthy English baron and spy for the Soviet Union.
Ping-Pong Diplomacy traces a crucial inter-section of sports and society. Griffin tells the strange and tragic story of how the game was manipulated at the highest levels; how the Chinese government helped cover up the death of 36 million peasants by holding the World Table Tennis Championships during the Great Famine; how championship players were driven to their deaths during the Cultural Revolution; and, finally, how the survivors were reconvened in 1971 and ordered to reach out to their American counterparts. Through a cast of eccentric characters, from spies to hippies and Ping-Pong-obsessed generals to atom-bomb survivors, Griffin explores how a neglected sport was used to help realign the balance of worldwide power.

Ping Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World, Griffin Nicholas