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The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy

The Forgotten Architect of Sino-U.S. Rapprochement

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction

    • Mayumi Itoh
    Pages 1-12
  3. International Political Background

    • Mayumi Itoh
    Pages 13-35
  4. Gotō Kōji and Meiden School

    • Mayumi Itoh
    Pages 37-58
  5. Gotō and Table Tennis

    • Mayumi Itoh
    Pages 59-72
  6. Gotō Makes the Decision

    • Mayumi Itoh
    Pages 73-88
  7. Gotō Goes to China

    • Mayumi Itoh
    Pages 89-104
  8. Nagoya World Table Tennis Championships

    • Mayumi Itoh
    Pages 105-128
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 201-244

About this book

Why and how did Japan Table Tennis Association President Goto Koji invite China to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 (the Nagoya World's)? Against strong opposition at home and abroad, Goto Koji created a stage for Premier Zhou Enlai to launch Ping-Pong Diplomacy, which changed world history forever

Reviews

"Makes a contribution to local history through the author s enlightening references to the political and economic factors peculiar to the Nagoya region, factors that contributed to Gotô s rise as a local civic leader, and which served as a background to the events of 1971-2. The author s extensive references to personal interviews and memoirs by his friends and associates are especially insightful in drawing a portrait of a man very much centered in the community in which he lived almost his entire life. It deserves to be read, and undoubtedly will be, for its comprehensive treatment of the factors behind ping-ping diplomacy." - Stephen J. Roddy, Associate Professor, University of San Francisco

"Well-researched, well-framed analytically, and highly original. Sheds important new light on the how today's complex yet fatefully important US-Japan-China triangle came to be." - Kent Calder,Director, Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies,SAIS/Johns Hopkins University

About the author

MAYUMI ITOH Former Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy

  • Book Subtitle: The Forgotten Architect of Sino-U.S. Rapprochement

  • Authors: Mayumi Itoh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339354

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Mayumi Itoh 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11813-3Published: 16 August 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29812-9Published: 16 August 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33935-4Published: 26 September 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 244

  • Topics: Asian Politics, Asian Culture, International Relations, Asian History, Diplomacy, History of Japan

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