print email comment close Ping-Pong Oddity URL: http://www.usatt.org/articles/ppoddity01.shtml Description: Text of an unpublished book about the U.S. table tennis team's 1971 "ping-pong diplomacy" trip to China. This trip, taken during the Nixon administration, was considered to be a turning point in improvements in U.S.-China relations. The personal account includes some photos from the trip. Part of a larger publication on the history of U.S. table tennis from USA Table Tennis, "the national organizing body for table tennis in the United States." Author: Boggan, Tim Publisher: USA Table Tennis Library of Congress Subject Headings: Table tennis United States -- Foreign relations -- China LII Database Information: Record 21098 created by Jennifer English on 04/03/2006 Last modification on 04/04/2006 Published: 04/06/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21098