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The horse that leaps through clouds : a tale of espionage, the Silk Road, and the rise of modern China / Eric Enno Tamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tamm, Eric Enno.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil, 1867-1951.
- Tamm, Eric Enno.
- Spies.
- Travel.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Silk Road--Description and travel.
- Silk Road.
- Tamm, Eric Enno--Travel--China.
- Tamm, Eric Enno--Travel--Silk Road.
- Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil, 1867-1951--Travel.
- Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil.
- Spies--Russia--Biography.
- China--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- China--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Social change--China.
- Social change.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 496 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2011]
- Summary:
- On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Tsar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. One of the last Tsarist secret agents, 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 retraces Mannerheim's route across the Silk Road, discovering both eerie similarities and seismic differences between the Middle Kingdoms of a century ago and today.
- Along the way, Tamm offers piercing insights into China's past that raise troubling questions about its future. As Confucius once wrote, "Study the past if you would divine the future," and that is precisely what Tamm does in The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Eurasia
- 1 St. Petersburg: The Secret Agent 1
- 2 Azerbaijan: The Nobels' Prize 19
- 3 Turkmenistan : Fear and Loathing 39
- 4 Uzbekistan: The Great Game Redux 57
- 5 Kyrgyzstan : Travels on the Synthetic Road 81
- Western China
- 6 Kashgar: Mission Impossible 109
- 7 To Khotan: Oases and Outposts 133
- 8 Tian Shan Range : The Horse That Leaps through Clouds 155
- 9 Urumoj: The Banquet 177
- 10 To Dunhuang: Treasure Hunt 195
- 11 Hexi Corridor: Barbarians Inside the Gate 215
- 12 Lanzhou: The Chinese Renaissance 241
- 13 Labrang: Stoned 265
- Northern China
- 14 Xi'an: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics 289
- 15 Henan: The Harmonious Countryside 313
- 16 Taiyuan: Opium of the People 337
- 17 Wutai Shan: The Wanderer 359
- 18 Inner Mongolia: The Soot Road 375
- 19 Beijing: Reawakening 395.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781582437347
- 1582437343
- OCLC:
- 663952959
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