In 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.
The Boxers have often been represented as a force from China's
past, resisting an enforced modernity. Here, expert contributors
argue that this rebellion was instead a wholly modern resistance to
globalizing power, representing new trends in modern China and in
international relations. The allied invasion of north China in late
summer 1900 was the first multinational intervention in the name of
"civilization," with the issues and attendant problems that have
become all too familiar in the early twenty-first century. Indeed,
understanding the Boxer rising and the Boxer war remains a pressing
contemporary issue. This volume will appeal to readers interested
in modern Chinese, East Asian, and European history as well as the
history of imperialism, colonialism, warfare, missionary work, and
Christianity. Contributions by: C. A. Bayly, Lewis Bernstein,
Robert Bickers, Paul A. Cohen, Henrietta Harrison, James L. Hevia,
Ben Middleton, T. G. Otte, Roger R. Thompson, R. G. Tiedemann, and
Anand A. Yang.
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