The Boxers, China, and the World

by Bickers, Robert; Tiedemann, R. G.

• ISBN13: 9780742553941
• ISBN10: 0742553949
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-12
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary 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. 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. 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Village Politics and National Politics: The Boxer Movement in Central Shanxi	p. 1
The Church Militant: Armed Conflicts between Christians and Boxers in North China	p. 17
(A) Subaltern ('s) Boxers: An Indian Soldier's Account of China and the World in 1900-1901	p. 43
Reporting the Taiyuan Massacre: Culture and Politics in the China War of 1900	p. 65
Looting and Its Discontents: Moral Discourse and the Plunder of Beijing, 1900-1901	p. 93
Scandals of Empire: The Looting of North China and the Japanese Public Sphere	p. 115
After the Fall: Tianjin under Foreign Occupation, 1900-1902	p. 133
The Boxer Uprising and India: Globalizing Myths	p. 147
The Boxer Uprising and British Foreign Policy: The End of Isolation	p. 157
Humanizing the Boxers	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 221
About the Contributors	p. 229
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