Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations
Schedule
Wed Oct 23 2024 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm
UTC+11:00Location
Seminar Room, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane The Australian National University Acton, ACT 2601 | Canberra, CT
About the Speaker
Pete Millwood is Lecturer in East Asian history at the University of Melbourne. His first book Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2022), was recently released in paperback. He received his PhD from Oxford, has taught at Tsinghua and the London School of Economics, and held fellowships at Peking University, the Library of Congress, and HKU’s Society of Fellows. He was recently awarded a 2025 ARC DECRA fellowship for his second book project.
The ANU China Seminar Series is supported by the Australian Centre on China in the World at ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
Where is it happening?
Seminar Room, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane The Australian National University Acton, ACT 2601, Australian National University, Acton Campus - Law, Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2601, Australia,Canberra, Australian Capital TerritoryEvent Location & Nearby Stays: