Month: February 2020

LIFE STORY

Chapter 31a – Taking a Ping-pong Team Into China

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Finally Into China, with Difficulty 1. Left Waiting at Lo Wu2. Taiwan Visas;  Entry to China Refused3. Into Canton (Guangzhou)4. Attacked by Radical Students5. Expulsion from Canton?6. Meeting Shirley Maclaine7. Into Shanghai, Bad News Waiting!  Finally I have got the ping-pong

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Chapter 31c – Pingpong Diplomacy Reactions

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Breakthrough to China 1. Wheat Diplomacy2. Australian Reactions to Wheat Ban3. The Mick Young Connection4. The Whitlam Visit to China5. Whitlam in Tokyo; the Kissinger Visit6. Liberal Party Defeated As it turns out, our ping-pong visit does help to open the

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