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Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of ChinaŽs War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
Boxer Rebellion The Dramatic Story of Chinas War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 Author:Diana Preston 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, wit... more »h the backing of China's empress dowager, would soon terrorize the world...This acclaimed account of the Boxer Rebellion, by an Oxford-trained historian, is an important new addition to every shelf of high-quality, highly accessible history.« less