The Recollections of Ping-pong Diplomacy- To Commemorate The 40th Anniversary of The 31st The World Table Tennis Championships Press: Central Committee Documents Publishing House, first edition, May, 2011 Brief Introduction: This book is prefaced by the former state councillor Tang Jiaxuan. It is a collection of articles of Xiong Xianghui, Zhuang Zedong and other dozens of people who witnessed that history. Besides the description on those well-known historical events, it also reveals a lot of historical details in the decision-making process when China dispatched a team to attend The 31st Table Tennis World Championships in Japan and invited the American table tennis delegation to visit China.