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Boxer Rebellion
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Boxer Rebellion

Rebellion of 1900 by the Chinese nationalist Boxer society against Western influence. European and US legations in Beijing (Peking) were besieged and many missionaries and Europeans were killed. An international punitive force was dispatched and Beijing was captured on 14 August 1900. In September 1901 China agreed to pay reperations.



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In some ways, the emphasis in his later work, especially with regard to the Boxer Uprising, is upon the intrinsic comparability of the Chinese experience.
China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past by Duara, Prasenjit / Pacific Affairs
This long-awaited book on the Boxer Uprising is a critical inquiry into the different ways in which we understand the past.
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth by Esherick, Joseph W. / Journal of Social History
According to Harrell, the movement developed such a scale and momentum for the most part because it was sanctioned by reform-minded Ch'ing officials like Chang Chih-tung and their programs of state revitalization -- intensified in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and the Boxer Uprising in 1900.
Sowing the Seeds of Change: Chinese Students, Japanese Teachers, ... by Ng, Wing Chung / Pacific Affairs
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