Driver of Peace? Ping-Pong Diplomacy on The Korean Peninsula by Brian Bridges

“…Amongst the various examples of sport influencing politics, the role of table tennis in facilitating ground-breaking connections between the United States and the People’s Republic of China – the so-called “ping-pong diplomacy” of the early 1970s – is probably the most-cited. …”
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Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Impact on the Establishment of Sino-US Relations by Stanislav Evgenievich Martynenko, Aleksandra Andreevna Trusova, Mikhail Sergeevich Cherniaev

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Below the summit: cultural and scholarly exchange visits in Sino-American relations, from ping-pong diplomacy to normalisation, 1971–1978 by Millwood, P

“…It examines the programme of cultural and scholarly exchange visits that, beginning with the ping-pong diplomacy of 1971, helped reacquaint the Chinese and American people after more than two decades of nearly hermetic isolation. …”

Acupuncture Journeys to the West by Stephanie Holmquist

“…This was the era of ping-pong diplomacy and Nixon in China. At the same time, North American and European interest in alternative medicine grew alongside general skepticism toward authority, including medical authority. …”
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