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" The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds : "
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853718
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Tamm, Eric.
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The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds : : a Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Counterpoint,, 2011.
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1 online resource (473 pages)
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| ISBN
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1553656385
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: 1582438765
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: 9781553656388
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: 9781582438764
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1582437343
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9781582437347
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Title Page; Dedication; NOTES; PROLOGUE; EURASIA; WESTERN CHINA; NORTHERN CHINA; EPILOGUE; Acknowledgements; A NOTE ON SOURCES; ENDNOTES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Copyright Page.
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| Abstract
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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 retra.
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Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil,1867-1951-- Travel.
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Tamm, Eric Enno-- Travel-- China.
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Tamm, Eric Enno-- Travel-- Silk Road.
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Mannerheim, Carl Gustaf Emil,1867-1951
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Tamm, Eric Enno.
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Social change-- China.
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Spies-- Russia, Biography.
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HISTORY-- Asia-- China.
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Politics and government
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Social change.
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Social policy.
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Spies.
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Travel.
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China, Description and travel.
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China, Politics and government.
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China, Social policy.
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Silk Road, Description and travel.
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Asia, Silk Road.
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China.
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Russia.
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| Dewey Classification
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951.05951/.035
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DS712.T3546 2011
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