The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds
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 Dynastyas sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so-called Great Game, Mannerheim chronicled almost every facet of Chinaas modernization, from education reform and foreign investment to Tibetas struggle for independence. On July 6, 2006, writer Eric Enno Tamm boards that same train, intent on following in Mannerheimas footsteps. Initially banned from China, Tamm devises a cover and retraces Mannerheimas route across the Silk Road, discovering both eerie similarities and seismic differences between the Middle Kingdoms of today and a century ago. Along the way, Tamm offers piercing insights into Chinaas past that raise troubling questions about its future. Can the Communist Party truly open China to the outside world yet keep Western ideas such as democracy and freedom at bay, just as Qing officials mistakenly believed? What can reform during the late Qing Dynasty teach us about the spectacular transformation of China today? As Confucius once wrote, aStudy the past if you would divine the future, a and that is just what Tamm does in The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds.At the beginning of June 2004, whileflyingover thedesert, Niyazovcommented on the villagea#39;s unattractive appearance. He ordered it razed. ... Below, I spotteda Nissan Patrol SUV beside a campsite at thefootof a rockyhill.It belonged toanbsp;...
| Title | : | The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds |
| Author | : | Eric Tamm |
| Publisher | : | Counterpoint - 2013-11-25 |
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