The Boxers 101 Years On.(Boxer rising in China)(Brief Article)

History Today | June 1, 2001| | Copyright

IN HISTORY TODAY in August and September 2000, Henrietta Harrison and Robert Bickers explored the domestic and global ramifications of the Boxer rising in China. This millennial anti-Christian movement sparked an international response that saw an eight-power alliance march on Beijing to suppress the rising and fight a war with the Qing state. Beijing was occupied, the court fled into the interior, and a punishing Protocol, signed in 1901, exacted harsh revenge on the Qing. Foreign military expeditions marched on alleged Boxer strongholds in the northern provinces and ...

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