Ebook: The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds: a Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China
- Tags: HISTORY--Asia--China, Spies--Russia, Social change--China, Social change, Social policy, Spies, Travel, Politics and government, Biographies, Tamm Eric Enno -- Travel -- China, Tamm Eric Enno -- Travel -- Silk Road, Mannerheim Carl Gustaf Emil -- 1867-1951 -- Travel, Spies -- Russia -- Biography, Social change -- China, China -- Description and travel, Silk Road -- Description and travel, China -- Politics and government, China -- Social policy, HISTORY -- Asia -- China, Mannerheim Carl Gustaf Emil -- 1867-
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Counterpoint
- City: New York;China;Russia (Federation);Silk Road;Asia
- Language: English
- epub
On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so-called Great Game, Mannerheim chronicled almost every facet of China's modernization, from education reform and foreign investment to Tibet's struggle for independence. On July 6, 2006, writer Eric Enno Tamm boards that same train, intent on following in Mannerheim's footsteps. Initially banned from China, Tamm devises a cover and retra.;Title Page; Dedication; NOTES; PROLOGUE; EURASIA; WESTERN CHINA; NORTHERN CHINA; EPILOGUE; Acknowledgements; A NOTE ON SOURCES; ENDNOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Copyright Page.
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