[PDF.82is] The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

[PDF.sc65] 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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 | #565725 in Books |  Berkley Books |  2001-07-01 |  2001-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Flawed|By doc peterson|I had long understood and viewed the Boxer Rebellion as a symptom of a decline Qing (Manchu) dynasty: the emergence of secret societies, the inability of the Dowager Empress to do anything about it as evidence of this. Diana Preston does an excellent job of demonstrating that matters in 1900 China were considerably more complex than this - and that some|.com |During the 19th century, rapacious colonial powers squeezed China mercilessly, seizing territory and extorting profits while missionaries sought souls. In the late 1890s, a virulently resentful peasant movement spread across northern China; foreigners nic

Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire. The foreigners laughed at the peasants' martial-arts routines and nicknamed them "the Boxers"-never imagining that the group, with the backing of China's empress dowager, would soon terrorize the world...This acclaimed account of the Boxer Rebellion, by an ...

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