Req: Info on The Boxer Rebellion

[SBL]

If anyone could send me some good info about the boxer rebellion, be it links to articles, or good books, or just some interesting facts, that'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[sir-chimp]

If anyone could send me some good info about the boxer rebellion, be it links to articles, or good books, or just some interesting facts, that'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

It was led by Mike Tyson against Don King, but that is about all I know.

[SBL]

It was led by Mike Tyson against Don King, but that is about all I know.

That was horrendous.

[James]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Boxer+Rebellion&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-2431094-1451216?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Boxer+Rebellion&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

:cantbeli:

[Histy]

Can somone throw me a link to google?

I will sit here hitting the refresh button

[Lt-Col A. Tack]

You might try "The Boxer Rebellion" by Diana Preston

It's in my library but I haven't read it yet; looks to be well researched.

I can pm the ISBN if you're interested.


From the jacket:

Relying on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of the defenders, and on her own extensive research from both Chinese and Western perspectives, Diana Preston the dramatic human experience of the Boxer rising: in the diplomatic distric fo Peking, cut off from the outside world druing the desperate weeks fo the seige;

[Geezah]

If anyone could send me some good info about the boxer rebellion, be it links to articles, or good books, or just some interesting facts, that'd be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Here's is an interesting link on Triads,

The Hung Society (http://www.capital.net/~phuston/hung.html)

It might help you better understand secret sociaties.

[Mike Blake]

A little late but I have only just joined... Preston's book is an OK general intro but like most of the popular histories it is more about the 55 day siege of the Peking legations than any other aspect of the Uprising. Peter Fleming's The Siege at Peking is another good overview, written in a journalistic and therefore very readable style, and readily available new and 2nd. Peter Harrington's Peking 1900: The Boxer Rebellion is in a similar vein but has more hard facts about the armies and the fighting than the other 2, and excellent illustrations. He also co-edited with Frederic A Sharf China, 100: The Eyewitnesses Speak, which is exactly what it says, a number of eyewitness accounts, which make for fascinating reading.

Cohen's History in 3 Keys looks at the conflict from 3 different slightly off-beam perspectives but provides a lot of insight in the process - and is more Chinese-focused than the other books.

2 books which try to do the same, ie look at the events from a Chinese view rather than just a European or American one, are R Bickers & RG Tiedemann, The Boxers, China and the World, a collection of essays by different writers, and best of all Jane E Elliot, Some Did It for Civilisation, Some For Their Country: A Revised View Of the Boxer War, which attacks many of the old myths about the war and the Chinese army in particular.

I have an extensive bibliography of the conflict, both primary and secondary sources, which I will send to anyone who would like it.

Now for a question of my own. Does anyone have any photos of the Boxer Uprising or China at the time to which they have the copyright and would be prpared to let them be used as illustrations in a new book being published in 2009 in the UK? [I am going to post this as a separate topic too, to trey to ensure as many as possible see it].

[Dodge]

That was horrendous.

So is your face.