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The Boxer Rebellion
Date Submitted: 07/03/2002 05:22:14
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Case Study: The Boxer Rebellion 義和團起義 "The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians..." Lin Zixu's quaintly blunt Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria is reflective of China's prevalent loathing attitude towards Europeans. This contempt became even more intense after the letter was sent in 1839, after the Opium wars. Most of China's people desired to rid their country of the foreign powers who were "lacerating China like tigers" and …
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…chief cause of the country's woes. The 1911 Chinese Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen was won over to the cause of nationalism. Clearly, the Boxer Rebellion has tainted China's relationship with the wider world to this day. Bibliography: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html Modern and Contemporary European History- J. Salwyn Schapiro 1953 Pierre Loti When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900 www.encarta.com World Book Encyclopedia 1998 http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/intrview/ldboxreb.htm
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