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Author Griffin, Nicholas, author.

Title Ping pong diplomacy : the secret history behind the game that changed the world / Nicholas Griffin.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Scribner, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  327.2 GRI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  327.7305 GRIFFIN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  327.73051 GR    Check Shelf
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xi, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-323) and index.
Summary Traces the story of 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.
Subject Table tennis.
China -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- China.
Added Title Ping-pong diplomacy
ISBN 9781451642773
1451642776
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