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The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds: a Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China

By Eric , Mannerheim , Carl Gustaf Emil;Tamm , Eric Enno;Tamm

Book information

Publisher
Counterpoint
Year
2011
ISBN
9781582438764, 9781553656388, 1553656385, 1582438765
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1422421 bytes)
Pages
473 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1867--- 1867-1951 -- Travel;Spies -- Russia -- BiographCarl Gustaf EmilEric Enno -- Travel -- China;TammEric Enno -- Travel -- Silk Road;MannerheimHISTORY--Asia--China;Spies--Russia;Social change--

Description

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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