![]() ![]() According to Ed Cox, upon hearing President Nixon’s plan to visit Peking, Kissinger told his staff Nixon must be crazy. Nixon won the 1968 Presidential election, he asked one of Rockefeller’s aides to work for him – Henry Kissinger. Once Governor Rockefeller bowed out of the race, and Mr. Ed asked him what his plans were to end the war and the former Vice President said “I’m going to go to Peking, and then I’m going to go to Moscow.” During a break in the campaign, Richard Nixon was home in his library, relaxing to a Tchaikovsky record. Vice President Nixon’s competitor for the nomination, NYS Governor Nelson Rockefeller, claimed Nixon has a “secret plan” to end the war. had 500,000 troops in Viet Nam, and was losing 300 casualties a week. How Did President Nixon’s 1972 Trip Happen?ĭid President Nixon’s trip really become possible because of an April 1971 table tennis tournament in Nagoya, Japan? Certainly, the American table tennis team (as well as the teams from England, Canada, and Colombia) was invited to the People’s Republic after the tournament, leading to the term “ping pong diplomacy” – but were things really that serendipitous? Kate Snow asked Ed Cox, who had been dating Tricia Nixon since 1963, what he remembered.įormer Vice President Richard Nixon was running for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1968, during the Viet Nam War. With the preliminaries done, the retrospective began. Thus, the reasons for Asian and Asian-American communities not only to send their children to Cornell, but to partner with the University, are considerable and should expand far into the future. There are those who would argue that this Cornellian’s humanizing portraits of China and the Chinese influenced the American people, if not the American government, to support the Chinese cause during World War II.Ĭornell has continued to lead in this area over the years by: establishing the first Asian-American Studies Program on the East Coast recognizing the pioneering Cornell Asian Alumni Association creating the Asian & Asian-American Student Center maintaining immersive language classes in Mandarin and Japanese overseas studies programs agricultural research and far more. The book earned Buck both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize the film version won two Academy Awards in 1937. Her 1931 Novel, The Good Earth, was a best-seller and became a Broadway play. She was raised and spent much of her life in China. Pearl Buck was born to a missionary family. Both these works helped Geoffrey Chaucer to write The Canterbury Tales in English instead of Latin in 1400. ![]() ![]() This helped influence Giovanni Boccaccio to write The Decameron in Italian instead of Latin in 1353. This moment is as important to Chinese culture as Dante Alighieri writing The Divine Comedy in Italian instead of Latin in 1320. This story illustrates how Hu Shih’s Cornell education helped influence Chinese society. Hu Shih looked at the poem and asked “why are you writing in that dead language?” This moment has been described as the seed of the “baihua” (colloquial language / writing) movement – launched formally in China in 1917 and adopted by the Chinese government in 1922. One student waded back to the shore and soon began composing a poem in formal Court Chinese to mark the event. One day, he and other Chinese students were rowing on Cornell’s Beebe Lake, and their canoe capsized. Hu Shih attended Cornell on a Boxer Rebellion scholarship. ![]() This included a brief history of Asia and Cornell, starting in the 1870s focusing on two immensely important Cornellians: Hu Shih, BA, 1914 and Pearl Buck, MA, 1925. The evening began with an explanation of why it was appropriate to host this event at the Cornell Club-NY. Introduction: Brief History of Cornell and China NBC News Anchor Kate Snow ’91 moderated the discussion which included Counselor Ed Cox, who is President Nixon’s son-in-law Zhengyu Huang, President of the premier Chinese-American advocacy group, the Committee of 100 and Charles Pei Wang, a human rights advisor to six consecutive U.S. On May 17, 2022, the Cornell Club-NY and the Cornell Asian Alumni Association (CAAA) presented a retrospective on the 50th anniversary of President Nixon’s visit 1972 to China.Īn all-star panel explored: how the trip was arranged the doors that were opened by President Nixon’s trip whether it really was “the week that changed the world ” and the impact of the trip on both countries – including the Asian-American community. Looking Back on "the Week that Changed the World" and what it means today, and for tomorrow ![]()
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