5:00 PM - Sun, Sept 22nd 2013
U.S.A.

Award Winner – Best Documentary – Historical Category
A feature documentary recounting the events of April 1972 when![]()
a US Table Tennis team became the first Americans invited into
communist China in more than two decades. For eight days
Ping-Pong diplomats captivated the world with their visit behind
the Bamboo Curtain. Ping-Pong Diplomacy soon became a
metaphor for the on-going difficult relations between two
ideological opposites on the brink of detente. Their unlikely
invitation paved the way for President Richard Nixon's landmark
visit to China eight months later
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
$12.00













