The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
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Call Number: 951.035 Si, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Asia & Oceania / China
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch
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An imperial world, an imperial China -- A popular eruption -- An informal war -- Every impediment made -- The fault of nature -- The Battle of Tianjin -- The second expedition -- With shut mouths, they took their measure.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Hill and Wang, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 273 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780809094776
0809094770
9780809030750
0809030756
SUBJECTS
Europeans -- China -- History.
Americans -- China -- History.
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901.