Ebook: The Boxer Rebellion and the great game in China
Author: Silbey David J.
- Tags: China History Boxer Rebellion 1899 1901 Europeans Americans HISTORY Asia
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Hill and Wang
- City: China, China.
- Language: English
- epub
Details the history of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, in which groups of peasants in northern China began to band together into a secret society known as "Righteous and Harmonious Fists", called the "Boxers" by Western press wanted to rid China of all foreign influence and massacred foreigners until subdued by international forces.