46. China's Ping Pong Power: Episode 2
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The Rise of China's Table Tennis Team
In the mid-1960s, the Chinese team vanished from international table tennis. Mao was doggedly committed to preserving his revolutionary ideas and ensuring that he was at the heart of China's political future. But as the grip of the cultural revolution loosened for a time in the early 1970s, table tennis was allowed to resume. In this three-part series, I'm exploring China's extraordinary rise as a global power through the prism of its national obsession, ping pong.
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