The horse that leaps through clouds
Subtitle: a tale of espionage, the Silk Road and the rise of modern China
By: Eric Enno Tamm
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, D & M Publishers Inc.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Vancouver; Toronto; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9781553656388; 9781553652694
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; History; Spies; Biography; Historical reenactments; Voyages; Descriptions et voyages; Histoire; Espions; Biographies; Reconstitution historique
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.
Notes: "An interactive multimedia website has been launched to engage readers and to complement this book, which chronicles two epic journeys, past and present, along the Silk Road and offers a cautionary tale about the breathtaking rise of China"--Notes.

At the top of each chapter is a hyperlink to supplementary resources from the interactive multimedia website (horsethatleaps.com).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Eurasia; title: St. Petersburg: The Secret Agent; title: Azerbaijan: The Nobels' Prize; title: Turkmenistan: Fear and Loathing; title: Uzbekistan: The Great Game Redux; title: Kyrgyzstan: Travels on the Synthetic Road; title: Western China; title: Kashgar: Mission Impossible; title: To Khotan: Oases and; title: To dunhuang: Treasure Hunt; title: Hexi Corridor: Barbarians Inside the Gate; title: Lanzhou: The Chinese Renaissance; title: Labrang: Stoned; title: Northern China; title: Xi'an: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics; title: Henan: The Harmonious Countryside; title: Taiyuan: Opium of the People; title: Wutai Shan: The Wanderer; title: Inner Mongolia: The Soot Road; title: Beijing: Reawakening; title: Epilogue: To the Finland Station.