One of the most violent episodes of China's Boxer Uprising was
the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign
missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first
sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi
Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both
sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash.
Although Franciscans were the first Catholics to settle in
China, their stories have rarely been explored in accounts of
Chinese Christianity. Anthony Clark remedies that exclusion and
highlights the roles of Franciscan nuns and their counterparts
among the Boxers--the Red Lantern girls--to argue that women's
involvement was integral on both sides of the conflict. Drawing on
rich archival records and intertwining religious history with
political, cultural, and environmental factors, Clark provides a
fresh perspective on a pivotal encounter between China and the
West.
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