Joel R. CAMPBELL

Chen Yun, one of the “eight immortals” of the Chinese Communist Party, meets with the Chinese Table Tennis team in 1961—a decade before “Ping-Pong diplomacy” changed the relationship between the United States and China.
Chen Yun, one of the most influential of China’s early Communist leaders, occupied a central place in the inner circle of leadership for much of the history of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He served on