An edition of The horse that leaps through clouds (2010)
The horse that leaps through clouds
a tale of espionage, the Silk Road and the rise of modern China
By Eric Enno Tamm
Publish Date
2010
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre, D & M Publishers Inc.
Language
eng
Pages
512
Description:
Two epic journeys along the Silk Road, past and present, offer a riveting and cautionary tale about the breathtaking rise of China. 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 Tam.
subjects: Politics and government, Description and travel, Travel, Biography, Social policy, Social change, Spies, Mannerheim, carl gustaf emil, 1867-1951, China, description and travel, Silk road, China, politics and government, Russia (federation), biography, History, Historical reenactments, Voyages, Descriptions et voyages, Histoire, Espions, Biographies, Reconstitution historique
People: Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim friherre (1867-1951), Eric Enno Tamm