Diana Preston

Boxer Rebellion

The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summ er of 1900

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780425180846
• ISBN-10: 0425180840
• Artikelnr.: 21296652

Autorenporträt

Diana Preston is an Oxford-trained historian, writer, and broadcaster who lives in London, England. She is the author of The Road to Culloden Moor: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ’45 Rebellion and A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole.

Inhaltsangabe

The Boxer RebellionPrologue
I. The Poison in the Well:
China on the Eve of the Boxer Rebellion
1. A Thousand Deaths
2. Boxers and Devils
3. The Approaching Hour
4. Rats in a Trap
5. "Sha! Sha!"
II. "Death and Destruction to the Foreigner!"
20 June21 July 1900
6. A Failed Rescue
7. City of Mud and Fire
8. Behind the Tartar Wall
9. The Drifting Horror
10. The Darkest Night
III. War and Watermelons: 21 July14 August 1900
11. A Truce and a Triumph
12. The Half-Armistice
13. Horsemeat and Hope
14. In through the Sluice Gate
IV. Murder, Rape, and Exile:
Scenes from the Boxer Summer
15. "Tour of Inspection"
16. The Island of the Peitang
17. The Faith and Fate of the Missionaries
18. The Spoils of Peking
V. Another Country?
China in the Wake of the Boxer Rebellion
19. The Treaty
20. The Court Returns
21. . . . And the Foreigner Departs
22. The Boxer Legacy
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Art Credits
Index