a remarkable thing was when i went and found the name ivan montagu. knew of view montagu's in england. i said how about ivan montagu? he said of course. it was my father's best friend uncle, and he'd never been around to meet his own uncle his whole life. no one really knew why. now they know why. i'm heading for london to launch the book next week and i think i've seven the of the montagu family. are not quite sure what i'm going to say. >> i was reading your review in "the new york times." you mentioned something about the 1972 with the chinese table tennis team was in the united states and play the americans and nixon decided to bomb the harbor at the time. how was the political time at that point? >> it look like the return trip, this return trip was very important when everything was supposed to be balanced. it was sort of a low in the vietnam war. i don't know quite why they decide to do this but the timing was smacked on the end of day two of the chinese talk, so was terribly embarrassing situation for the chinese squad define themselves in. on

the first young boy who becomes a communist revolutionary goes by the honorable ivan montagu. the two chinese men playing ping-pong is the future premier at that point. the american is a young free spirit from californian named glenn not doing much of anything gets into pingpong somehow invited to join the american team ended today's later at he is a spontaneous diplomat out of the blue is on every newspaper in the world in the '70s. what i want to talk about is i don't think we have to concentrate very hard to know china has come a long way in the last 50 years and that relationship is more important than ever. they have been there before up until the 1800's and it is very hard you cannot see athens getting their stuff together or to come back anytime soon. but the chinese have been here before. in they make mistakes getting back on their feet again. favor on the right road generally. whether the chinese intentions? with this whole industry who make a living in the other reason is we just don't know. if what we go abroad china if this relationship told the is that china are m

the first young boy who becomes a communist revolutionary goes by the honorable ivan montagu. the two chinese men playing ping-pong is the future premier at that point. the american is a young free spirit from californian named glenn not doing much of anything gets into pingpong somehow invited to join the american team ended today's later at he is a spontaneous diplomat out of the blue is on every newspaper in the world in the '70s. what i want to talk about is i don't think we have to concentrate very hard to know china has come a long way in the last 50 years and that relationship is more important than ever. they have been there before up until the 1800's and it is very hard you cannot see athens getting their stuff together or to come back anytime soon. but the chinese have been here before. in they make mistakes getting back on their feet again. favor on the right road generally. whether the chinese intentions? with this whole industry who make a living in the other reason is we just don't know. if what we go abroad china if this relationship told the is that china are m