The Boxer Rebellion : the dramatic story of China's war on foreigners that shook the world in the summer of 1900

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The Boxer Rebellion : the dramatic story of China's war on foreigners that shook the world in the summer of 1900

Diana Preston

Walker, 2000

  • : pbk

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"First published, in somewhat different form, as Besieged in Peking in Great Britain in 1999 by Constable and Company, Ltd."--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 402-408

Includes index

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This acclaimed account of the Boxer Rebellion, by an Oxford-trained historian, is "an outstanding popular history that also passes muster as first-rate historical research" (Booklist). In the last years of the nineteenth century, the Western powers were bickering over how to slice up the pie of China, while the presence they had already established there was undermining the Chinese people's traditional ways. Then a new movement-mystical, militaristic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread like wildfire among the Chinese peasants. The contemptuous foreigners nicknamed them "the Boxers"-a snickering reference to their martial-arts routines-never imagining that the group, with the backing of China's Empress Dowager, would soon terrorize the world.... "With meticulous research and passionate style, Diana Preston re-creates the tragedy that consumed China a century ago." -Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking

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The Boxer RebellionPrologue I. The Poison in the Well: China on the Eve of the Boxer Rebellion 1. A Thousand Deaths 2. Boxers and Devils 3. The Approaching Hour 4. Rats in a Trap 5. "Sha! Sha!" II. "Death and Destruction to the Foreigner!" 20 June 21 July 1900 6. A Failed Rescue 7. City of Mud and Fire 8. Behind the Tartar Wall 9. The Drifting Horror 10. The Darkest Night III. War and Watermelons: 21 July 14 August 1900 11. A Truce and a Triumph 12. The Half-Armistice 13. Horsemeat and Hope 14. In through the Sluice Gate IV. Murder, Rape, and Exile: Scenes from the Boxer Summer 15. "Tour of Inspection" 16. The Island of the Peitang 17. The Faith and Fate of the Missionaries 18. The Spoils of Peking V. Another Country? China in the Wake of the Boxer Rebellion 19. The Treaty 20. The Court Returns 21. . . . And the Foreigner Departs 22. The Boxer Legacy Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes and Sources Bibliography Art Credits Index

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