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On July 6, 1906, Baron (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1140518.Carl_Gustaf_Emil_Mannerheim) Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynastys sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in the so-called Great Game, Mannerheim chronicled almost every facet of Chinas modernization, from education reform and foreign investment to Tibets struggle for independence. On July 6, 2006, writer Eric Enno Tamm boards that same train, intent on following in Mannerheims footsteps. Initially banned from China, Tamm devises a cover and retraces Mannerheims 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 Chinas 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 transformatio

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Author

Eric Enno Tamm

Publisher

Counterpoint Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582437347

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Biography

Rating

3.83 / 5 (43 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14