{"product_id":"9781582438177","title":"The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Tsar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynasty's sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. One of the last Tsarist secret agents, Mannerheim chronicled almost every facet of China's modernization, from education reform and foreign investment to Tibet's struggle for independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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 a century ago and today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way, Tamm offers piercing insights into China's past that raise troubling questions about its future. As Confucius once wrote, \"Study the past if you would divine the future,\" and that is precisely what Tamm does in The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048219033840,"sku":"9781582438177","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781582438177_p0.jpg?v=1763803475","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781582438177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}