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 Oxford-trained historian, is an important new addition to every shelf of high-quality, highly accessible history.
- ISBN10 0802713610
- ISBN13 9780802713612
- Publish Date 30 June 2000
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 17 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Walker & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 436
- Language English