Full name: The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

Author: Diana Preston Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780425180846 0425180840

Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire. The foreigners laughed at the peasants' martial-arts routines and nicknamed them "the Boxers"-never imagining that the group, with the backing of China's empress dowager, would soon terrorize the world...This acclaimed account of the Boxer Rebellion, by an Oxford-trained historian, is an important new addition to every shelf of high-quality, highly accessible history. Similar books: Wilful Murder by Diana Preston The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey The Gate of Heavenly Peace by Jonathan D. Spence Mao's China and After by Maurice Meisner China by John King Fairbank Treason by the Book by Jonathan D. Spence China by John Keay Restless Empire by Odd Arne Westad Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors by Ann Paludan The Great Wall by John Man The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence Imperial China by F. W. Mote The Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985 by John King Fairbank The Island of Seven Cities by Paul Chiasson Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt The Long March by Sun Shuyun Lusitania by Diana Preston Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll