The Boxers, China, and the World

by Robert Bickers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742553957
• ISBN13: 9780742553958
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.8"