The Boxers, China, and the World by Robert Bickers, R. G. Tie... - 9780742553941

The Boxers, China, and the WorldAuthor(s): Robert Bickers, R. G. Tiedemann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780742553941, 978-0742553941\nSynopsis\nIn 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. This war introduced the world to the \""Boxers,\"" the seemingly fanatical, violent xenophobes who, believing themselves invulnerable to foreign bullets, died in their thousands in front of foreign guns. But 1900 also saw the imperialism of the 1890s checked and the Qing rulers of China move to embark on a series of shattering reforms.\n\nThe Boxers have often been represented as a force from China's past, resisting an enforced modernity..