Ping-PongDiplomacy:TheSecretHistoryBehindtheGameThatChangedtheWorld

作者 Nicholas Griffin著
出版社 Scribner
出版时间 2014年1月
ISBN 9781451642773
定价 185.10

内容简介

Itwasoneofthemostsignificantdevelopmentsofthepost-warera:ChinafinallyabandoningitscloserelationshipwiththeSovietUniontobegindetentewiththeUSA.Astonishingly,themanwhohelpedmakeithappenwasaBritisharistocrat,IvorMontagu,aSovietspywhoknewStalinanddinedwithTrotsky.Evenmoreremarkably,themeanstothisrapprochementwastabletennis,asportlovedbybothChairmanMaoandMontagu.Foryears,Montaguhadlivedaduallife,workingtospreadcommunismandalsotabletennisaroundtheworld.Surprisingly,thetwostrandsofhiscareerwouldcometogetherinaneventofglobalsignificance.NicholasGriffinweavesacompellingstorytorevealthebackgroundtothefamousoccasionin1971,whentheUSA'sGlennCowan,a19-year-oldhippie,befriendedChina'sworldchampionZhuangZedong,whowasimprisonedduringtheCulturalRevolution.Withindays,theAmericanswouldbeplayingtheChineseinfrontof18,000fansinBeijing,withthewholeworldwatching.ItwasthebeginningofathawinSino-USrelationsthatforcedtheSovietsintoacripplingarmsracethatactedasacatalysttopressuringthemintoerrorsthatwoulddrawtheColdWartoanend.Sometimessporttrulycanhavethebiggestconsequences.

作者简介

NicholasGriffinisajournalistandauthoroffournovelsoneworkofnon-fiction.HiswritinghasappearedinTheTimes(UK),TheFinancialTimes,ForeignPolicy,andotherpublicationsontopicsasdisparateassportsandpolitics,piracy,filmmakingintheMiddleEast,andthenaturalsciences.GriffinhaswrittenforfilmandisaTermMemberattheCouncilonForeignRelations.HelivesinNewYorkCitywithhiswifeandtwochildren.

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