American Judy Bochenski plays a match against a member of the visiting Chinese table tennis team, in Cobo Hall, Detroit, in 1972. Photo: courtesy of Judy Hoarfrost
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 1971 trip to China would help end the cold war
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Diplomacy
American Judy Bochenski plays a match against a member of the visiting Chinese table tennis team, in Cobo Hall, Detroit, in 1972. Photo: courtesy of Judy Hoarfrost
New York photographer and activist Corky Lee’s 2019 reenactment of the iconic 1869 photograph, but with the descendants of Chinese railroad workers and other Chinese-Americans. Photo: Alan Chin
The Chinese who built America’s Transcontinental railroad are recognised, at last
- The First Transcontinental Railroad changed America forever, but thousands of men who had toiled on the tracks were erased from history
- On the 150th anniversary of its inauguration, hundreds of Chinese-Americans gather in Utah to set the record straight
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Chinese history
New York photographer and activist Corky Lee’s 2019 reenactment of the iconic 1869 photograph, but with the descendants of Chinese railroad workers and other Chinese-Americans. Photo: Alan Chin