Baptism of Fire: China's Christians and the Boxer Uprising of 1900. From: International Bulletin of Missionary Research | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: Tiedemann, R. G. | COPYRIGHT 2000 Overseas Ministries Study Center. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As preparations are made to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Boxer Uprising, this "midsummer madness" of 1900 remains a well-known but poorly understood episode in modern Chinese history. Most readers will be familiar with the fifty-five-day siege of the foreign legations in Beijing, for that story was covered by sensational accounts in the Western press at the time and has since been retold in popular books and motion pictures. [1]

While the heroic defense o...

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