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Archives
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Imperial War Museum Archives (IWM), London.
Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People’s History Museum), Manchester, UK.
Marx Memorial Library, London.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People’s Republic of China.
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National Archives, Kew, UK.
National Committee on United States–China Relations.
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Video
China Central Television (CCTV) coverage of both the US trip to China in April 1971 and the Chinese trip to the US in 1972, courtesy of the National Committee on United States–China Relations.
The Glory of China’s Table Tennis Game (1959–1999). Beauty, Culture, Communication, Guangzhou, China.
My Way, New Tang Dynasty TV, 2009.
Index
Aaron, Hank, 130
Aarons, Ruth, 36
Africa, and China, 211
Agnew, Spiro, 231
Albania, 236
Algeria, French Army in, 127
“America the Beautiful,” 236, 274
Asian Championships, 80
Asian Table Tennis Union, 175
Asquith, Anthony, 14
Associated Press (AP), 213, 214
Auden, W. H., 55
Auschwitz, 47, 109
Averin, Gennady, 122
Barr, David, 200
Beatles, 180, 191
Becker, Jasper, 102
Beckett, Joe, 26
Belloc, Hilaire, 7
Bengttson, Stellan, 183, 188
Berczik, Zoltan, 118
Bergmann, Richard, 34, 35, 46–47, 70
Berlin, film capital of, 14
Bernal, J. D., 88–89
Bletchley Park, England, 44
Bochenski, Judy, 181, 226, 258
Boggan, Tim:
and Chinese team, 183, 271
and Chinese visit to US, 248, 253
and Cowan, 181, 188, 209, 211, 218, 223, 224–25, 259, 261
and media, 181, 207, 223, 226, 258, 261
in Nagoya, 181–83, 259
and Tannehill, 209
and US team, 181–82, 258, 271
and USTTA, 181, 258, 271
and visit to China, 204, 209, 211, 218, 223, 224–25, 226
The Book of Five Rings, 69–70
Brathwaite, George, 207, 215, 219, 245, 258
Bridge on the River Kwai (film), 73
Britain:
fair play in, 122
and World War II, 38–40, 43–45, 73
British intelligence, 41
MI5, 27–28, 32–33, 37, 38, 43–44, 158
MI6, 50
MI9, 42
and Operation Mincemeat, 39–40, 44–45
British Museum, 64
British Socialist Party, 12
British Table Tennis Association, 13, 46
British table tennis team, 23–24, 50
Burick, Marcia, 241, 250, 255, 268
Burmese Railway, 73
Bush, George H. W., 251, 262
Cambodia, US invasion of, 169
Cambridge University, 11–13, 14, 43
Carson, Johnny, 257, 261
Carter, Alan, 202
Castro, Fidel, 127
CBS, 207
Chaplin, Charlie, 27, 200
Chen Yi, 78–79, 201, 219, 272
and Chinese team, 107
and Cultural Revolution, 139, 146, 149, 150, 168
exile in France, 79
and foreign policy, 130, 168
and political intrigue, 80, 139, 146, 149, 155, 168–69, 235
sports and games, 79, 133
and Zhou Enlai, 79, 149, 150
Cheung, Steven, 78, 80–81
Chiang Kai-shek, 57, 81
and civil war, 53–54, 59, 78, 94, 135, 272
and Communist Party purges, 79
and Nationalists, 54, 58, 200–201, 242
and Snow, 53, 54, 58
and Stalin, 94
and Taiwan, 59, 63, 242
and United Front, 58
and United Nations, 234
China:
architecture in, 92, 118, 270
Beijing World Championships (1961), 85, 90, 93, 96, 117–19, 120–25, 126–28, 129, 146, 193, 211–12, 269
border with Russia, 166, 169, 172
British Mission in, 137, 150
civil war in, 53–54, 59, 78, 94, 135, 200, 272
and Cold War, 95, 128, 134, 233, 272
famine in, 86, 90, 91, 96, 101, 102–5, 106–8, 118–19, 126, 127–28, 129, 272
Four Olds in, 143, 147, 159
Four Pests Campaign, 91
Great Leap Forward in, 85, 86, 88, 91–92, 93, 98, 102, 105, 113, 126, 139, 150, 219
hukou system in, 104, 142
Hundred Flowers Movement, 79–80, 137
and Japan, 9, 36, 53, 58, 59, 173–75
and Korean War, 94, 219
Long March, 53, 78, 87, 110–11, 139, 272
Montagu’s visits to, 64–66, 93, 236
Nationalists, 53–54, 58, 200–201, 242, 248
National Sports Commission, 59, 85, 96, 106, 113, 130, 137, 147, 160, 193, 264, 265–66, 268
Nixon’s visit to, 235–37, 264
nuclear capability of, 134, 167, 168, 169, 172
Old China Hands, 200, 213, 236–37
and Opium Wars, 9, 136
People’s Liberation Army (PLA), 56
People’s Republic (PRC), 59, 61, 64, 86, 91, 93, 130, 201–2
ping pang in, 100–101
and Ping-Pong diplomacy, 2, 65–66, 85, 118–19, 128, 192, 236, 273–74
Ping-Pong popularity in, 56–57, 59–60, 61–62, 65, 92, 96–97, 100–101, 136, 139
Ping-Pong team, see Chinese table tennis team
propaganda in, 63, 86, 90, 101, 103, 117, 123, 126–28, 176
Qing dynasty, 57
Rape of Nanking, 123
Red Army University, 54–55
rules stretched by, 122, 131, 133, 135, 218, 224, 246, 268
Sino-Soviet split, 94–95, 126–28, 133–34, 150, 166–69, 172, 233, 235
Sino-Soviet talks, 169
Snow in, 53–59, 127, 170, 189, 213, 252, 267
sports as national policy in, 55, 56, 59–60, 61–62, 66, 93, 98, 100, 122, 129–30, 136, 139, 160, 172, 187, 192, 264, 275
and Taiwan, see Taiwan
Tangshan earthquake, 267
Temple of Heaven, 97
Two Chinas solution, 175–76
United Front in, 58, 59
and United Nations, 130, 201, 219, 227, 234–35, 241, 251–52, 264
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