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	The Violin Site :: Ping Pong
		Table tennis, also known as ping pong, is the second most played sport in the world as well as the newest of the world's major sports.
		Ping pong ball is the official name for the sport in China.
		It is played with a light, 40 millimeter diameter high-bouncing hollow celluloid ball, on a table 9 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 30 inches high with a masonite or similarly manufactured timber, coated with a low-friction, smooth coating.
	www.theviolinsite.com /pingpong.html (583 words)

	Table tennis
		Table tennis (also known as ping pong, although most professionals are offended by this term) is the second most played sport in the world as well as the newest of the world's major sports.
		It is played with a very light (2.7 gram), high-bouncing hollow plastic ball of 4.0 centimetres diameter, on a table 2.74 metres long, 1.525 metres wide, and 76 centimetres high with a masonite[?] or similar manufactured timber, coated with a low-friction, smooth coating.
		This marked a thawing in relations with the United States that was followed up by a visit by the US president Richard Nixon.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pi/Ping_pong.html (428 words)

	Diplomacy
		A diverse group of American ping pong players were plunged Front Stage Center in the eyes of the world when they scored a visit to China, a country that had been isolated from the U.S. and the world for over two decades.
		The historic 1971 Ping Pong Diplomacy trip to China squeezed opened a crack in the heavy locked door to China, then Secretary of State Kissinger and President Nixon stuck their foot in the crack, and during the following 26 years the door has flown wide open.
		Media coverage in the U.S. of Ping Pong Diplomacy #2 was fairly good; CNN did a special presentation on the event, and a group of us did a spot on Good Morning America with interviewer Charles Gibson.
	www.paddlepalace.com /ArticleHowTo/diplomacy.htm (2683 words)

	The (Ping Pong) Case for Castro
		I have also watched you play ping pong for hours and felt sure that you were not tired from the long journey.
		In other words, this answer is the ping pong equivalent of fastening one's eyes on a particular part of the table and serving in a different direction.
		For over fifty years Castro has been refining his ping pong game from the halycon days of high school to the military fervor of his revolution to the look the other way answers of his adulthood, Castro's ping pong game has continued to evolve.
	www.deadlyhippos.com /columns/Archive/Apr_2005/castro.htm (961 words)

	Ping Pong Diplomacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ping Pong Diplomacy (Chinese: 乒乓外交) refers to the cultural exchange of ping pong players of the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the 1970s.
		The second was because of Leah "Miss Ping" Neuberger, the American who was the 1956 World Mixed Doubles Champion and nine times U.S. Open Women's Singles Champion, was traveling at the time with the Canadian Table Tennis Team that had been invited by China to visit the country.
		As part of diplomatic tactics, China extended its approval of Leah Neuberger's application for a visa to the entire American team.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ping_Pong_Diplomacy (1041 words)

	Ping pong diplomacy returns 7/16/97
		Ping-pong diplomacy was a watershed in Chinese-American relationships the opening that led to high-level negotiations between the Nixon administration and the Chinese government, according to Julian Chang, assistant director of the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies.
		In the previous few years, China's rivalry with the Soviet Union had escalated to the point of pitched battles on the nations' common borderline, and Chang said officials seized on table tennis as a way to reach out to the West.
		"This is an opportunity to re-visit the relationship between the two nations and to remember the goodwill of ping-pong diplomacy," he said.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1997/july16/pingpong.html (885 words)

	35th anniversary of 'Ping Pong diplomacy'
		A U.S. delegation is visiting China on the 35th anniversary of the trip by ping pong players that paved the way for normal relations between the countries.
		Ping Pong Diplomacy was followed by President Richard Nixon's historic visit in 1972.
		The ping pong players were the first U.S. group to visit China since the 1949 revolution -- a span of more than 20 years during which the United States treated the regime of Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China.
	story.floridastatesman.com /index.php/ct/9/id/10f9971153691798/cid/... (206 words)

	Ping Pong Paddles -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Ping Pong Diplomacy refers to the cultural exchange of ping pong players of the United States and People's Republic of China in the 1970s.
		On 12 April 1972 the team and accompanying journalists became the first Americans to set foot in the Chinese capital since Mao's communist party had come to power 22 years earlier, in 1949.
		The Ping Pong recording technique is a method of sound recording consisting of bouncing tracks between two tape recorders, connected through a mixing console.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/118/ping-pong-paddles.html (489 words)

	Ping-Pong Diplomacy Speeches
		Ironically, ping-pong diplomacy was sort of the key component of Nixon's strategy in order to break down the sort of bamboo curtain that had been drawn up over the two decades of hostility between the US and China.
		What I started out with was the fact that these exchanges, the public diplomacy, the huge numbers of people, the ability that these events had to alter the images of the American people about the Chinese people and vice versa, really played an enormous part in helping the President to move his policies forward.
		You also need to have, sort of this behind the scenes clandestine secret diplomacy that was certainly going on between China and the United States in order to lay the groundwork and make it happen.
	www.epiic.com /archives/2000/ping-pong/speeches.htm (6613 words)

	PingPong Diplomacy, a CurtainUp review
		Graham handles the role of narrator and observer of his own story gracefully though his voice is at times too loud for the the 59E59th Street complex's tiny Theater C (The basement in which my kids used to play ping pong -- I mean table tennis-- was bigger and accommodated a regulation sized table).
		For all the ideas put on this small ping pong table, only the scene when the outcome of Zhu and Nick's romance hangs in the balance is excessively talky and debate-like.
		Ping Pong Diplomacy is the runner up in Reverie Productions' Next Generation Playwriting Contest and is playing in repertory with the winning entry, Havana Bourgeouis by Carols Lacamara.
	www.curtainup.com /pingpongdiplomacy.html (819 words)

	Jerome Charyn, Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins: Ping Pong & the Art of Staying Alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While many have played a casual game of ping pong now and then, still more take the game very seriously.
		He has insight born of experience in the topic at hand and can discuss the finer points of difference between a hard bat covered with pimpled rubber or the soft "sandwich" of a sponge bat.
		He peppers the text with anecdotes, some amusing and some poignant, and he devotes two chapters to the ping pong diplomacy of the early 1970s.
	www.rambles.net /charyn_sizzl01.html (242 words)

	Ping Pong Diplomacy Interview
		JOE: In the early 1970’s the Chinese unexpectedly invited the US national table tennis team into the country as a means of opening relations with the West.
		Ping Pong Diplomacy and made me their executive director.
		Ping Pong Diplomacy is a success, it will be because Reverie Productions made it possible.
	www.reverieproductions.org /pingpong2-inter.htm (560 words)

	Ping-Pong Diplomacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The era of Ping-Pong diplomacy had begun 12 months earlier when the American team—in Nagoya, Japan, for the World Table Tennis Championship—got a surprise invitation from their Chinese colleagues to visit the People's Republic.
		Time magazine called it "The ping heard round the world." And with good reason: no group of Americans had been invited to China since the Communist takeover in 1949.
		The Chinese felt that by opening a door to the United States, they could put their mostly hostile neighbors on notice about a possible shift in alliances.
	www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2002/april/pingpong.php (281 words)

	Ping Pong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Our ping pong experts are available to help you select the table that's perfect for you.
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		The mysteries of life are answered in "Ping Pong", an often surreal Japanese film from 2002 that examines...
	ping-pong.pingpongalong.info (1068 words)

	Ping Pong Diplomacy Lecture and Demonstration Friday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lecturer Judy Bochenski Hoarfrost was the youngest member of the U.S. team for the Ping Pong Diplomacy trip to China in 1971.
		In 1972, she was chosen to accompany the Chinese Table Tennis Team when they toured the United States in a reciprocal Ping Pong Diplomacy trip.
		Hoarfrost returned to China for the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Ping Pong Diplomacy as a guest of the Chinese Table Tennis Association.
	www.tamu.edu /univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/03/110703-11.html (168 words)

	The Trail Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although we could not communicate orally, we were able to have a conversation using two sounds on the table - ping.
		The highlight of the evening for myself was, after smashing the hell out of the ball only to be easily lobbed back repeatedly, watching my Chinese opponent jump onto the table in the middle of a point and slam the ball on my side.
		I can't really, but they don't know that, and neither do I. First pitch, inside corner, ping, deep fly to left field, Cody sprints to the wall, jumps on the billboards and pulls it in, one out, one pitch.
	asups.ups.edu /trail/Articles/DispForm.aspx?ID=487 (1476 words)

	Judy Bochenski & Ping Pong Diplomacy
		http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200311/14/eng20031114_128247.shtml A 15-year-old American girl and Ping Pong Diplomacy Thirty-two years ago, China and the United States started their engagement in a unique way - by playing table tennis.
		The "Ping Pong Diplomacy," as it is widely known today, led to the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1979 and a profound change in the world situation.
		Judy Hoarfrost, the youngest member of the then US Ping Pong team and an eyewitness of one of the pivotal moments in the Sino-US ties, had no idea at all about what was going on at that time.
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/rec.sport.table-tennis/msg02713.html (1070 words)

	News item (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The first of course being in 1971 when the first group of Americans in approximately twenty four years was able to set foot in China.
		It not only marked the beginning of 'ping pong diplomacy' but of people-to-people exchanges, which have become the basis for the work of the National Committee and other organizations in increasing understanding between Chinese and American citizens.
		The National Committee was delighted to have worked together with the U.S. Table Tennis Association in 1972 to welcome the Chinese team to this country for a 20-day, 9-stop tour.
	www.usatt.org /news1/2006_pingpong_diplomacy.shtml (566 words)

	Ivan Joseph's WebLog : Ping Pong and some other thoughts
		We had a Ping Pong tornament last week on the 3rd floor.
		I won one of the brackets - My first round was with Hardeep and 'ping pong diplomacy' it wasn't (something that Pradeep contrived in the draw - will I ever forgive him?:-)).
		Since the team was changin in a month with several calendar changes, a dozen new faces and half a dozen extended team ppl - I had a small algo on Excel that would take in names, auto-sort it and then automatically populate the Ladder-Graphic.
	blogs.msdn.com /ivan_joseph/archive/2005/11/08/490475.aspx (219 words)

	PP Diplomacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One young American diplomat had clearly stated that he had joined the State Department to solve the problems of the world, and then sat analyzing the political impact of a ping pong game.
		China’s ping pong ploy did offer the Nixon administration a bright future of opportunities.
		Immediately, it promised an easing of tensions in Asia and a prospect of profitable trade relations between the two countries.
	www.sdtta.org /pp_diplomacy.html (755 words)

	“Ping-Pong Diplomacy” Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Then the upright napkin placed partially under our large immoveable show-plate to dangle there conveniently for hand and mouth use, never to be dropped during the course (courses) of the meal.
		Sheri, reiterating her tour-theme of preserving the Ping-Pong Diplomacy legacy for friendship generations to come, had her counterpart in a young student addressing us all in a very sure, VERY strident voice.
		Presently China/Japan needed some “Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” for relations between the two countries were strained due to Japan’s Prime Minister’s insistence on visiting the Yasakuni war shrine, a symbol of Japan’s past militarism.
	www.usatt.org /articles/revisited/pp_diplomacy_revisited.shtml (5846 words)

	Ping Pong Diplomacy
		The "ping pong diplomacy" led to the restoration of Sino-U.S. relations which had been cut for more than two decades.
		This triggered off a series of other events, including the restoration of China's legitimate rights in the United Nations by an overwhelming majority vote in October, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and other countries.
		Of course, Sino-U.S. relations might have been restored sooner or later, even without the "ping pong diplomacy." Clearly, though, this diplomacy sped up the process.
	www.china.org.cn /english/features/olympics/100660.htm (1412 words)

	The American Thinker
		But it was also much the weaker of the two, and President Nixon calculated that China’s extremism was actually rooted in its isolated and disadvantaged position internationally relative to its Soviet rival.
		The truth of this calculation yielded a diplomacy whose success shocked the world and effectively neutralized the negative geopolitical consequences of defeat in the Vietnamese War.
		Starting with the small gesture of an American table tennis team’s visit to China, so-called “Ping-Pong Diplomacy” opened a new era of Sino-American relations.
	www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=5034 (1014 words)

	Though Unofficial, Change Is in the Air for U.S.-Hanoi Ties
		This "ping-pong diplomacy," as it was known, helped lay the groundwork for improved Chinese-American relations after decades of hostility.
		The professor asked not to be identified because she feared that anti-Communist Vietnamese refugees might threaten the program.
		But they say there are important differences between the Vietnamese visits and the "ping-pong diplomacy" with China in the early 1970's.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/asia/092088vietnam-us.html (1466 words)

	Pacman diplomacy on the Korean peninsula - Technology - smh.com.au
		Pacman diplomacy on the Korean peninsula - Technology - smh.com.au
		Ping pong diplomacy worked for Mao and Nixon.
		South Korea's main negotiator on North Korea has pledged support for inter-Korean exchanges on internet games, according to a news report.
	www.smh.com.au /news/technology/pacman-diplomacy-on-the-korean-peninsula/2005/12/05/1133631167965.html (278 words)

	Ping-pong diplomacy returns to Stanford after 25 years (7/97)
		Ping-pong diplomacy returns to Stanford after 25 years (7/97)
		Jack Howard, a member of the team that made the historic 1971 trip to China, may be reached in Torrance, Calif., at (310) 943-9772.
		For more information on the World Wide Web, visit the ping-pong diplomacy site at http://www.tabletennisgold.com, the Center for East Asian Studies site at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CEAS/ or the Stanford athletics site at http://www.gostanford.com/.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/97/970715pingpong.html (991 words)

	Ping Pong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Juggling the launch of his Japanese album and studies, all Kim Jeong Hoon of Princess Hours fame can think of right now is sleep, writes JERMYN CHOW.
		There's nothing better than celebrating your ping pong victory by hitting your partner in the face.
		What is taller than Alan Duncan but much less entertaining The mammoth companies bill and its assorted bumf, with which peers, business leaders and investors will be...
	pingpongisagreatsport.info /ping_pong/ping_pong_racket (318 words)

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