For a wealth of information on the book, the author and the research that went into this book, visit www.horsethatleaps.com.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 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 today and a century ago.Along the way, Tamm offers piercing insights into China’s 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? "Study the past if you would divine the future, ” wrote Confucius. Tamm’s quest turns out to be a cautionary tale.
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A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China
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A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road and the Rise of Modern China
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INDEX
Page numbers apply to the print edition of this book. Items in italics reference maps.
Across Asia (Mannerheim), 265, 437
ACTIVISM
human rights, 59, 104
Li Fan, 417
safety of, 70
students’ lack of, 263
Tiananmen Square, 252, 263
Uzbekistan, 70
Admiralty building, St. Petersburg, 7
aerospace manufacturing, 306–7
AGRICULTURE. see also farmers/farming
abolishment of tax, 324
Chan-Ba Rivers Ecological District, 308–9
cotton, 44, 58, 60, 82
Henan, 326
irrigation, 196
Turkmenistan cotton, 44
Agvan Dorjieff (Buryat lama), 364–65
Aidingbao Pub, 221–22
AIDS, 314
air pollution, 54, 258, 339
Ak-Buura (White Camel) River, 84
Aksu River, 160
Alai region, 89, 91, 96
Alai Valley, 98–99
Alexander I, Tsar, 7, 62
Alexander Nevsky Bridge, 6
Alexander Palace, 434
Alexander the Great, 63
Alexeyeff, Colonel, 87
Ali and Nino (Said), 37, 42
Aliyev, Heydar, 24, 28
Aliyev, Ilham, 24
Altunluq Mosque, 146
Amdo, 286
American Board Mission, 343
Amu Darya river, 44, 59
Andijan Hotel, 77
Andijan, Uzbekistan, 75–80, 85
Anichkov Bridge, 6
anti-corruption measures, 325, 328
Anxi Extreme Arid Wilderness, 257–58
An Yubing, 235
Aral Sea, 57–58
Arapova, Anatasia (Mannerheim’s
wife), 9
wife), 9
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
Gaochang (Karakhoto), 201–2
Hami, 204–5
Khotan, 139
Toyuk, 202–3
Turpan, 196–97, 201
Yotkan, 147–48
architecture, 6, 116, 119, 249, 398
Armenian people, 25–26
Armoury Museum, Kremlin, 431
arrest in Turkmen...
Table of contents
- NOTES
- PROLOGUE
- ST. PETERSBURG
- AZERBAIJAN
- TURKMENISTAN
- UZBEKISTAN
- KYRGYZSTAN
- KASHGAR
- TO KHOTAN
- TIAN SHAN RANGE
- URUMQI
- TO DUNHUANG
- HEXI CORRIDOR
- LANZHOU
- LABRANG
- XI’AN
- HENAN
- TAIYUAN
- WUTAI SHAN
- INNER MONGOLIA
- BEIJING
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- A NOTE ON SOURCES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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