Pete Millwood (The University of Hong Kong)

Improbable Diplomats

How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781108941068
• ISBN-10: 1108941060
• Artikelnr.: 70243433

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.