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50 Years Later, The Legacy Of U.S.-China 'Pingpong Diplomacy' Faces Challenges
By John Ruwitch (NPR) Judy Hoarfrost remembers the day she walked into China a half-century ago. She was 15 and the youngest member of...
Apr 11 2021
Fifty years ago, a hippie, a dental assistant and a 15-year-old helped open China with ping pong
By Michael E. Ruane (Washington Post) Judy Bochenski was 15, wore mini skirts, and had to ask her parents if it was ok to...
Apr 11 2021
'Ping Pong Diplomacy' Celebrates 50 Years, Just As U.S., China Need It Again
By Scott McDonald (Newsweek) The best table tennis players in the world descended upon Japan in March of 1971, all looking for championships. Shortly...
Apr 11 2021
Ping Pong Diplomacy resonates a half century later
By Tim Dahlberg (Associated Press) They were an unlikely group of trailblazing diplomats, including the 15-year-old who knew only that China was a big...
Apr 08 2021
Hoarfrost Fondly Recalls Barnstorming Tours As Teenage Prodigy
"By the time Judy (Bochenski) Hoarfrost was 15 years old she had been the youngest member of the historic USA Ping Pong Diplomacy team...
Jun 12 2019
Ping-pong diplomacy and US-China relations: the game and the players that changed the course of history
Judy Bochenski was involved in one of the most astonishing geopolitical games in the world Then 15 years old, the American table tennis star’s...
Jun 11 2019
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22 Apr 2019 USA and China win bids to stage 2021 and 2022 World Table Tennis Championships Finals https://youtu.be/d96j8ugS15g Breaking new ground, new territories...
Apr 22 2019
USA Table Tennis & Houston Bid for 2021 WTTC
6 April 2019 - World Table Tennis Day ITTF National Table Tennis Associations Presidents and Secretaries General Dear President, Dear Secretary General, Dear Friends,...
Apr 07 2019
How Oregon's 15-year-old table-tennis star Judy Bochenski thawed the Cold War in 1971
How Oregon's 15-year-old table-tennis star Judy Bochenski thawed the Cold War in 1971(Original article from the Oregonian) By Douglas Perry , The Oregonian/OregonLive "The...
May 09 2015
