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

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.