WHY WE SHOULD REMEMBER…
Mar 18, 2021
1 minute
BY RANA MITTER
, on 4 April 1971, at the World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, an 18-year-old American named Glenn Cowan got on the tour bus of his Chinese opponents and started chatting with his Chinese counterpart, Zhuang Zedong. that “everything was different from anything I’d ever seen”. The stark China of the late Cultural Revolution was a world away from the America of rock music, hippies and Vietnam War protests.
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