Improbable Diplomats
How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations
Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-94106-8 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-94106-8 (ISBN)
Improbable Diplomats reveals the critical role of Chinese and American athletes, scientists, and artists in rebuilding US-China relations in the 1970s. Examining an overlooked aspect of ties between the two societies, this revisionist account of US-China rapprochement will interest historians and students of Chinese and US foreign relations.
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by the US table tennis team. Historians have mulled over the transcripts of Kissinger's negotiations with Chinese leaders. However, they have overlooked how, alongside these diplomatic talks, a rich program of travel and exchange had begun with ping-pong diplomacy. Improbable Diplomats reveals how a diverse cast of Chinese and Americans – athletes and physicists, performing artists and seismologists – played a critical, but to date overlooked, role in remaking US-China relations. Based on new sources from more than a dozen archives in China and the United States, Pete Millwood argues that the significance of cultural and scientific exchanges went beyond reacquainting the Chinese and American people after two decades of minimal contact; exchanges also powerfully influenced Sino-American diplomatic relations and helped transform post-Mao China.
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by the US table tennis team. Historians have mulled over the transcripts of Kissinger's negotiations with Chinese leaders. However, they have overlooked how, alongside these diplomatic talks, a rich program of travel and exchange had begun with ping-pong diplomacy. Improbable Diplomats reveals how a diverse cast of Chinese and Americans – athletes and physicists, performing artists and seismologists – played a critical, but to date overlooked, role in remaking US-China relations. Based on new sources from more than a dozen archives in China and the United States, Pete Millwood argues that the significance of cultural and scientific exchanges went beyond reacquainting the Chinese and American people after two decades of minimal contact; exchanges also powerfully influenced Sino-American diplomatic relations and helped transform post-Mao China.
Pete Millwood is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. His writing has appeared in History Today and The Washington Post. This is his first book.
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Prologue: Chinese and US Cold War-Era Exchange Diplomacy before the Nixon Era; 1. By Popular Demand; 2. Ping-Pong Diplomacy's Return Leg and After; 3. New Liaisons; 4. Familiarity Breeds Contempt; 5. Asking for More in Exchange; 6. Political Science; Epilogue: The New Normal; Conclusion: Ties That Bind?; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 637 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-94106-0 / 1108941060 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-94106-8 / 9781108941068 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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