People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed Us-China Relations During the Cold War - Paperbackby Kazushi Minami (Author) In People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. Top policymakers in Washington and Beijing drew the blueprint for the new bilateral relationship, but the work of building it was left to a host of Americans and Chinese from all walks of life,