The Week that Changed the World: The Inside Story of Richard Nixon’s 1972 Journey to China

Exhibit highlights 40th anniversary of Nixon's visit to China

Nixon in China

February 1972 – China: Documentary 'President Nixon in China, A Journey for Peace' depicts President Nixon's visit to People's Republic of China.

Nixon in China: Audiovisual Records from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

【Mysteries behind Nixon's 1972 China Visit】 By 1971, after more than two decades of isolation and hostility across the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Table Tennis Team became the first American sports delegation to set foot on Chinese soil since 1949. The Ping-Pong event marked a thaw in Sino-U.S. relations. Meanwhile, as journalist Edgar Snow wrote in "A Conversation With Mao Tse-Tung," published in April 1971, Mao said he welcomed rightists such as Nixon to visit China because the problems between Ch