OF HOOVER, AN EMPRESS, AN UPRISING

The Boston Globe | June 21, 2000| | Copyright

Herbert Hoover was under fire. Guiding a contingent of US Marines toward the gates of Tientsin, he suddenly realized that the attack was crumbling, he was outrunning the Marines, Chinese sharpshooters lined the city walls - and that he was unarmed.

Hoover and his wife, Lou, had left for Asia on their wedding day. He was prospecting for coal and mineral deposits, and together the couple explored remote areas of Mongolia and Manchuria. A century ago this spring, however, a bizarre sect called the Boxers (their ritual exercises reminded Westerners of pugilists) kindled China's nationalist ...

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